Jean Kerr Quotes

You have to write what you know.

You write about what you know.

I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.

All experience helps when you write.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

You can only really write about what you know about.

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear to me that I was a very poor writer and could've ruined my career before it even started.

I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

I am not a trained writer.

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

I wouldn't in any way say I distanced myself from Wall Street.

I'm not a writer.

I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.