Number 7 for sure!

[THX1138]

Most irritating question for me is "Where do you get all your ideas from?" Most mind boggling was "You're writing a book? Are there any sex scenes in it?"

I was told it wasn't a real book unless there was sex in it. I still beg to differ. And no, not in mine. For me it too juvenile if there is no love interest. I'm writing a SF, not a skin flick. And if there was the intimacy would be implied and not described.

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

I write Science Fiction

Casual conversation in a waiting room one day:
'Whatchya writing?'
'A book'
'What's it about?'
'Aliens and spacerockets.'
'For kids?'
'No, there's cursing and drugs.'
'So not for kids.'
'No.'
'Nobody's gonna read that -you should write about something else.'
...everyone's an expert when it comes to writing

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

I still beg to differ

I agree, was reading back some of Asimov's stuff and the sexy parts read like wonky seventies porn voiceover to me

 

[ANV]

I mentioned I write to my colleague in the office and he had the best reaction: "why are you wasting your time here then?" made me hopeful I might be one day able to do this mystical job of a writer

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Variations on #4. And before I ever finished my first novel, my relatives were always asking me #6.

Then when I did finish it and sell it to a publisher, within weeks of my selling it the same family members would ask, "Where can I buy it?" And then when it was finally released, "I've been looking for it everywhere ,but I can't find it." ("Um, have you tried . . . a bookstore?" "Oh. OK, I will try that.") I assume they were looking at the book racks in grocery stores and drug stores and department stores—at least I hope they didn't expect to find the book in garden centers or on their own front lawns. But it did surprise me at first that people who were actively looking for a book wouldn't immediately think of going to a bookshop, since in those days bricks-and-mortar bookstores were practically everywhere. At least they were in the area where we lived.