Writing from Experience Quotes

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

I always pull from something I know really well. Because I would never want to write about something that I hadn't experienced or that I hadn't witnessed happen to somebody else because it wouldn't be genuine.

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men. Straight people can write about gay people; gay people can write about straight people.

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'

I write about what I know.

You can only really write about what you know about.

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.