Mike O'Brien Quotes

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

I prefer writing originals.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

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

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

I think you can't help but write in your own voice.

I feel you should be able to write about whatever you want.

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the only one reading my work. It has been a way for me to unlock my imagination. That's when the world becomes yours, after all.

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.

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.