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I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

I think blogging, by and large, is basically therapy. And I'm sure, and I know, that there are some terrific bloggers and some legitimate bloggers. But I think, by and large, a huge percentage of people who are blogging are doing it for self-therapy.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.