Jessica Cutler Quotes

When I started my first blog years ago, I just wanted to share my perspective. For a long time, models had been these mute pretty faces - and I wanted to have a voice.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

For me, blogging is just like talking.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

I'm kind of obsessed with Instagram. I like the fact that you can really express yourself. Obviously, there are limits, but you can always show a lot of your personality and day to day things that no one would ever know.

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

People put their voice everywhere. All through Instagram comments. As minuscule and kind of stupid as that is, at the same time, it's dope. People really feel like, 'I have to say something,' which is sometimes a little much, but like, 'Go ahead, man. Speak away.'

The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

When I joined Instagram, I began sharing my raw photos along with my raw and honest thoughts and feelings.

My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

I blog because I have something to say.

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!

I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month, then whatever.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

I sincerely believe blogging can save America.

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

Just as I never liked bumper stickers - even though I do brake for animals, and if I had a kid, she would definitely be an honor student - I don't like the idea of expressing my views through social-media-controlled rainbow-or-anything-else-ification.

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.