Independent Writing Quotes

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

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.

As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.