Catharsis Quote by Mary Gauthier

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

— Joan Didion

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

— Glenn Close

Part of my therapy is to write.

— LeAnn Rimes

I write for myself. It's therapy.

— Dawn Richard

Writing is my therapy.

— Adam Silvera

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

— Corey Smith

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

— Lucinda Williams

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

— Natalya Neidhart

I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but…

— Annie E. Clark

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

— Feist

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

— Marie Lu