Unencumbered Writing Quotes

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

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.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

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.

When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

Writers write without support.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.