Kathleen Hanna Quotes

I write what I want to write.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

I write what I'm interested in.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.

I don't write to a genre.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

I write what I write.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.