Healing Quote by Reynolds Price

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

— Jan Karon

The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense…

— Anthony Minghella

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

— Esther Forbes

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

— Marie Lu

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad…

— Robert Lowell

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically…

— Erica Jong

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

— J. G. Ballard

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 a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

— Gregory Mcdonald