Abuse Quote by Nick Cave

I come from a place of darkness when I write because I'm always trying to figure things out. It's kind of like my own…

— Skylar Grey

My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far away, from…

— Tony Burgess

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control…

— Lauren Groff

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an…

— Anonymous

So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a…

— George Harrison

When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the…

— T.C. Boyle

Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really…

— Phoebe Bridgers

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy…

— Del Shannon

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even…

— Stendhal

It always starts as journaling for me. I find if I try to write a song, it doesn't feel as sincere as if I…

— JP Saxe

I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as…

— Gary Louris