Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

I essentially write for myself.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

I don't do any art to please any people.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

My work is intensely personal.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.

I am like a common man who is dictated by what I like and I sometimes feel that if something good, I should produce it.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.