Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

I am the freest author in the world.

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.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

I feel you should be able to write about whatever you want.

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

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

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

The wonderful thing about writing fiction is that no one is stopping you. There's no one saying, 'You can't do that.'

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

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.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

I just write what I want to write.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

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