Pablo Neruda Quotes

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Writing gave me a life.

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

For me, writing is just processing.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

It's crazy to see people having tattooed my lyrics on their body, and quite frankly writing is just an outlet for my voice and getting it out there.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.