Andre Norton Quotes

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Where's your will to be weird?

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

I don't care much about conforming.

I like being unconventional.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

Dreamers can't be tamed.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

I used to be frustrated about being called bohemian, but I don't really care now. If that's what you are, you should celebrate it.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.