Quotes About Freedom

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

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room eating too much chocolate and drinking too much tea, eventually they let me out into the world.

I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.

In the Netherlands, the press writes what they want.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.