Sarah Kay Quotes

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Writing gave me a life.

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.

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

I took a few months off after my senior year was over, and I prayed and tried to figure out what was my plan and my purpose. That's how I started writing songs and playing guitar just to get my feelings out.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it with an audience. It's incredibly cathartic.