please yourself
Do what you want; behave as you wish.
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. Ayn Rand
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. Doris Lessing
Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself. Harlan Ellison
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. Iris Chang
You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself. Ricky Nelson
I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to. Orson Scott Card