Tom Hanks's Love Letter To Filmmaking

The phrase “write what you know” has always been, at best, a loose construct. At one end of the spectrum you have C. S. Lewis, a man who pieced together the Narnia books from fragments of an upbringing filled with religion and travel and war and ancient epics. On the other, you have Tom Hanks, a World War II–obsessed typewriter collector who caught the coronavirus and makes films for a living, who has just written a novel about a World War II–obsessed typewriter collector who makes films for a living in the age of the coronavirus. Both approaches are equally valid, although one does sound slightly easier.