Jenny Lawson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

  Jenny Lawson

  Lonely, Book, Writing

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

• Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Self, Practice

  Source: therumpus.net

• I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time watching people. When I was a small child I could detect hidden body language in others only I could see. People's emotions rub off on me. When I told this to my therapist she said, "Well, you're an empath." I thought, "No way. Like Star Trek?" And she clarified: because I am so socially uncomfortable, I have compassion for others who I recognize are also struggling. People with anxiety are acutely aware.

  Jenny Lawson

  Stars, Children, Struggle

  Source: therumpus.net

• When someone writes something hateful and threatening I respond with something like, "I want to be so much like you; I want to wear your skin." By messing with them in that way you change what they're selling. They won't share it. And it halts the conversation. Or I'll change it to "Jenny, you're like a rose bush that grew a watermelon." They come back pissed off and write, "I didn't say that!"

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Rose, Skins

  Source: therumpus.net

• I wanted to write about my disorders for people like my husband or mother who don't suffer but have saved people. Mentally ill people don't have a choice in who they are. But those that stand by the mentally ill make an enormous difference. Even when I'm healthy enough to take care of myself I face constant battles, especially with insurance companies.

  Jenny Lawson

  Mother, Husband, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

• I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Writing, Simple

  "'Let's Pretend This Never Happened' by Jenny Lawson". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. April 17, 2012.

• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Anxiety, Trying

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

• Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

  Jenny Lawson

  Religious, Jobs, Real

  "'Let's Pretend This Never Happened' by Jenny Lawson". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. April 17, 2012.

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