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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.

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 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.

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

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.

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.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.