“It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”
“People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.”
“If you write about the present it is very much more difficult to make things sound convincing. But writing about the past means that you are writing about a situation in which you know at least as much as anyone else.”
“One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.”
“Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.”
“It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.”