"It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong." (chapter 4) - Wide Sargasso Sea

Writing can be (among other things), a safety valve. (1949)

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion. ("The Insect World")

The things you remember have no form. When you write about them, you have to give them a beginning, a middle, and an end. To give life shape—that is what a writer does. That is what is so difficult.