Unconstrained Writing Quotes

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules.

When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is.

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There's really a lot of freedom to it.

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

I write what I like. I don't bother what people think about it.

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.