Ability Quote by Uzodinma Iweala

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

— Daniel Mason

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

— Julia Cameron

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

— Kevin Patterson

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

— Roxane Gay

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

— Alain de Botton

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

— E. B. White

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

— Jan Karon

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

— Natalya Neidhart

I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

— Woody Allen

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

— Dean Koontz

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

— Marie Lu

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor…

— Abraham Verghese