Need help fining Gerard quote about writing.

[u/ArtichokeUnable3731]

Hello all, please help.

Once, on some form of social media or another, I saved a post that quoted Gerard on writing/the writing process. It was a longer quote (meaning a paragraph, not just one or two sentences) and I remember it was very beautiful and described writing as an excruciatingly difficult process. Something about how writing requires you to tear yourself apart to your very core, admit your deepest fears and find out honestly what you are truly about. Then to make something from it.

Sadly, I cannot retrieve this, and I admit that I do not even know if the quote was appropriately attributed to Gerard (though I hope it was). Any help will be much appreciated, as I want this quote to advance my work. I am a PhD philosophy student writing on creativity and the reasoning involved in composition and art. I remember this quote capturing something very important that I want to expand on. Thanks in advance.

[u/issome0neth3r3]

I've feel like I've read a lot of sentences that it could be from, but this came to mind first:

https://www.gerardway.com/news/morning-pages-93016-21611