BTS’s RM on writing

BTS leader RM said he has considered writing a book, but told Rolling Stone he feels shy about entering what he called a field crowded with great writers. (rollingstone.com) In the same interview, published April 14, RM also floated a more personal idea: collecting his diary entries into a single volume instead of starting with a conventional book project. (rollingstone.com) The comments came in Rolling Stone’s May 2026 BTS cover package, which included a group feature published April 13 and seven solo covers released over the following week. Brian Hiatt interviewed RM in Seoul in mid-February at Hybe headquarters. (rollingstone.com, rollingstone.com) RM framed the interview itself as a record he might revisit later in life, saying he thinks about posterity and how he will look back on these conversations at 50. That helps explain why a passing remark about a future book landed as more than a throwaway line for fans who track his writing closely. (rollingstone.com) Writing has long been central to RM’s public image inside BTS. BigHit Music’s official profile describes the group as artists known for self-produced music, and Rolling Stone’s 2026 profile again cast RM as the member who helped shape BTS’s identity from its early years. (bts.ibighit.com, rollingstone.com) The timing also matters because BTS is back in full-group mode after military service. Associated Press reporting on June 20, 2025, said all seven members had completed their mandatory service, and BigHit Music’s official discography now lists the new album “Arirang.” (nbcnews.com, bts.ibighit.com) Rolling Stone’s group story says RM spent 18 months in mandatory service and described that period as marked by insomnia and an internal “cave.” A diary-based book would fit with how he and collaborators have recently described his work from that stretch as unusually personal. (rollingstone.com, rollingstone.com) That is also why fans seized on the remark so quickly: RM was not talking about fiction or a celebrity memoir rollout, but about turning private notes into a published object. For an artist who told Rolling Stone he tries to express “universal things,” the idea of a diary volume sounds consistent with the way he already talks about music, memory, and record-keeping. (rollingstone.com) For now, RM did not announce a manuscript, publisher, or release date. What he offered was smaller and more revealing: a writerly ambition, and a hesitation about whether his notebooks should stay notebooks. (rollingstone.com)