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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'

I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.