Jeff Hanneman Quotes

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

I write what I want to write.

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

I just write what I want to write.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.