Comfort Quote by Myriam Gurba

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

— Dean Koontz

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

— Marie Lu

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

— David Rakoff

Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful. When you…

— Sarah Gerard

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

— Oscar Wilde

No matter what situation I'm in, I always feel better writing something in the middle of whatever emotion I'm feeling. So it does help…

— Benson Boone

Whenever it feels good to write, I just am so relieved, and that is the one revelation every time. I thank God that I…

— Gracie Abrams

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

— Natalya Neidhart