Darkness Quote by Paul Westerberg

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

— Mark Waid

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core…

— Harlan Ellison

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and…

— Bell Hooks

“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through the darkness…

— Shannon L. Alder

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

— Morris Gleitzman

“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

— Alice Walker

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

— Jack Nicholson

“I always instruct my students to write a great deal. Write a journal. Take notes. Write when you are feeling wretched, when your mind…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing a list of ways I could be better and writing a suicide note are the same thing”

— Sierra Demulder