“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.” WorldWritingEndsSelfDreamPainFacesEvilHalfDespairOfficeAnxietyWindowTrainDepthPopulationPainfulStrangerFoolishPostsGood And EvilContinentsClosestAgonyDisguiseGlimpseOur DreamsEnd Of The WorldDiscouragementLove And DeathPost OfficeRefreshmentsClumsiness Author:John Cheever
“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.” KnowsGivingWritingHas BeensPainHeavenHoursChanceJourneyReaderBitterHeartacheRelaxationTediumBitter Experience Book:The Moon and Sixpence Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.” ThinkingNeedsWritingMightPainSongEmotionCreativeCaptureBe CreativeUps & DownsWriting LoveWriting Love Songs Author:Curtis Jackson
“Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.” WritingBookPainSleepFutureRainWindowRecipesPremonition Author:Ani DiFranco
“The writing is - I'm free of pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing.” WorldWritingMatterBodyPainImaginationMy ImaginationNothing Matters Author:Toni Morrison
“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.” NeedsWritingKindPainJoyWritten Author:Madeleine L'Engle