When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.
Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a long time to write eight bars of rap. I would battle any pianist, and yet I would forfeit happily before even getting into a rap battle with anyone.
Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
Write. . . write. . . pencil. . . paper.
If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.
You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.
If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
I write out of defiance.
The challenge is to write about real things magically.
The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.