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I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended…

— Michael Ondaatje

The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played,…

— Rheta Grimsley Johnson

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

— Clarice Lispector

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

— Bei Dao

When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing…

— Stephen King

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

— Alanis Morissette

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

— Judy Blume

One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other…

— Leslie Jamison

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole,…

— Dannah Gresh

I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was…

— Anna Quindlen

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

— Lulu Wang

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

— Dolly Parton