Sally Rooney Quotes

I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

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

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

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

I would design for anybody who gives me a free hand and who doesn't sit on my head.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

Writing will remain a passion project.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

I write what I'm interested in.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.