Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15.

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.

Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.