1st July 2016 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, writing, reaching your audience, Jojo Moyes, creative freedom |
"That was actually quite liberating. .... I could write the exact story that I wanted to write. I didn't think about how anybody would receive it."
"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."
"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."
"I never thought of myself as a horror writer. That's what other people think. And I never said jack shit about it. [My wife] came from nothing, I came from nothing, we were terrified that they would take this thing away from us. So if the people wanted to say 'You're this,' as long as the books sold, that was fine. I thought, I am going to zip my lip and write what I wanted to write."
"Even my publisher will say they just want more thrillers. That's what feeds my family. But I feel like if I did that, I wouldn't be being true to myself."
"The No. 1 piece of advice [my mother] gave me was, 'write the book you want to read.' And if you're not writing the book you want to read, something's wrong."
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