Disha Patani Quotes

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

I write all of my material. It's all me.

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

When I created the email in the U.S., my mentor could have easily copyrighted it and taken credit for it.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.