Writing Experiences Quotes

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven't gone through myself, but I've known people to go through them. In the past, I've always written about my experiences and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that I've never written about that people have gone through.

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn't based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.

'Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn't what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

In my twenties, I wrote a lot of romantic stories in which I always lost the girl.

I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

The painful part of being a new writer on 'ER' is that you come on with all these great ideas, and you find out we've already done them.

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.