John Trudell Quotes

I started writing to save my life.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

I write to give myself strength.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.