“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
“Don't Write What You Know; Write What You Care About -- Passionately!!”
“Write about what you don't know about what you know.”
“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about""You could write about us”
“Don't talk to me about writing; you couldn't write "fuck" on a dusty Venetian blind.”