Myself Quote by Sharon Van Etten

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started…

— Truman Capote

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

— Lulu Wang

I found when I was really little that my instinct was to write before talking to other people about the way that I felt.

— Gracie Abrams

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience.…

— Dominique Jackson

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

— Jane Alison

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

— Damon Albarn

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and…

— Common

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent