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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

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.

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 always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

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 write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

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

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.