Quotes About Independence

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

I learned about not just being with someone because I don't want to be alone: being willing to be alone, and then find something that feels right and just reaching for companionship for companionship's sake. Not letting drama lead my life.

Setting up our own label allows us to rip up the rulebook and find new ways of reaching an audience.

I chose not to react to everyone's opinion.

I try not to think about anybody's reaction to what I do.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

I want my readers to find their own way.

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.

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

Belize is not ready for self-government.

Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

I became a producer because nobody was ready to finance my films.

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I was into real estate. I was always an entrepreneur.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

You have a real freedom when you don't have to worry about what you look like.