A. S. Byatt Quotes

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story and my own ending.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

I'm doing what I want to do.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Liberation does not come from outside.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

I'm the queen of the independent video!

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

I invented myself.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.