Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

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

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

I started writing to save my life.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

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

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

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

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt anymore.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

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.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

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 couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

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.