>“I hate authors who come into schools and they have an assembly and they say, ‘Write what you know, write from your heart. Always write from your heart.’ Those kids will never write another word. Right? No, they won't. I've written... I say I've written over 300 books. Not a single word from my heart. No, it's true. It's all meant to entertain people… just to entertain."
>>25640753and no one knows who the fuck said that to this day
>>25640753There's no difference between writing from the heart and writing to entertain. Two writers, each doing either, are doing the exact same thing, but the result is different because of who they are.
>>25640821I'll give you a hint: top 15 highest earning book author of all time.
>>25640821>>25640879Probably James Patterson then, but any of the men on that list could have said the same thing
>>25640879George Martin?OP is a faggot btw
>>25640898Big George is not on that list, TV fag. We're talking book sales alone, not multimedia deals.
>>25640753https://youtu.be/N4eVHjTkdjg
R.L. Stine is the author who made this statement, claiming he has written over 300 books (specifically 350 in some reports) and not a single word from his heart. He argued that telling students to "write from your heart" and "write what you know" discourages them from writing further, as it ignores the necessity of research and market awareness in the writing process.
>>25640936More like RL Sloppa
>>25640942It's true though, write from the heart/what you know will always give you only autobiographical boring shit that has been done a million times before, and better, by actually good authors.Writing as a craft is nothing to be ashamed of.
>>25640753This guy is right, but only to an extent.The crap they spout in schools ("write from the heart") is pernicious because it's always done without any attempt to teach the technical end of HOW TO WRITE.So classroom after classroom of unfortunate children are encouraged to bare their souls, without any technical ability whatsoever. And of course the result is always cringeworthy for the audience and intensely frustrating for the writer, because he can see (if he has any intelligence) that he isn't expressing himself well.It's like saying to someone, "Just go out there and play the piano to that massive crowd. You don't need to learn HOW to play the piano, just go out there and play what's in your soul." No-one would expect that to lead to anything but disaster. But for some reason it's considered to be just the thing when it comes to writing. (In particular, writing poetry.) Are schools trying to suggest that writing poetry is easier than playing the piano? How many competent piansts do you get in a generation? How many competent poets?
