BD Wong Quotes

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

At least I can write.

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.

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.

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

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

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

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

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

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

Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I write based on how I feel.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

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

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.