Ted Talks: "Write what you don't know"

[Tamahome]

Is no pithy statement about writing true anymore?

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/917

[Michael]

Guess not, thank God!

[Welwyn]

All of them are, for different writers. You just have to figure out whose pith is yours.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I loved the earthquake analogy for writing!!

[Tamahome]

Huh?

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

"...I'm not saying that fiction has the magnitude of an earthquake. But when we are reading a good novel, we leave our small, cozy apartments behind, go out into the night alone and start getting to know people we had never met before and perhaps had even been biased against...."