The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject. . . Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.