Rupi Kaur Quotes

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

You have to write about what's inside you. If I have to get something out, I'll do it.

I ultimately write for myself and the people I love.

I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

I write for myself. It's therapy.

It's a powerful thing to be able to write a song. Even the least powerful feeling - like insecurity - that makes you feel weak when you experience it, when you write about it, you are powerful.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.