11th July 2016 | for Creatives | Neil Gaiman, create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, writing, creative freedom |
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.)"
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that—but you are the only you."
"Write the poem you would never show anyone."
"The biggest for me [by self-publishing] is the freedom to write what I want when I want. I can jump genres and write several novels a year. Traditional publishing is much too restrictive. I don't want to pump out the same book over and over. I want to challenge myself and produce the work that I feel is missing from the marketplace."
"Staying creative for life means remembering (sometimes on a daily basis) your original why: why you write, why writing matters to you. It means holding onto what's personal and even private in the pursuit, and holding close what's most meaningful."
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