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I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.

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.

I don't care about writing really.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

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.