“Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.”

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it’s OK if you only make one point, as long as it’s a good one.

Make sure you’re realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.

For me, working in the fashion industry is about getting to meet the minds behind the brands. Sure, there are nice dinners, events and shows – even the occasional freebie – but the best part is getting to sit down with and talk to people that have done great things.

You quickly realize that no matter who you’re talking to, how famous, brilliant or wealthy they are, they are just “people.”

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts and words, because I’m very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

I’m trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it’s been difficult finding the right roles. It’s been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people’s identity and they end up full of resentment.

All variables are independent.