David Knopfler Quotes

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York and having a city at your disposal.

For me, it is freedom, freedom from everything: when I write, I'm not a woman. I'm not a Muslim. I'm not a Moroccan. I can reinvent myself, and I can reinvent the world.

I want to be a proud daughter of Punjab. Celebrate my roots - fly, flourish, write stories, characters. Don't hold me and my voice to ransom. Enable me, don't disable me!

I feel like there's something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.

It was a big step for me in the Netherlands: to leave home at the age of 18.

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job, all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

When you work at a magazine, you have to tell the truth. When you're not working in that format, it's fun to see where your mind takes you when the dictates have nothing to do with anyone but yourself.

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.

A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.