As a writer, did you experience all the things you write about?

As writer I have written about the things I have experienced or what other people close to me have experienced.  Imagination can add creative zest to writing.

A writer can create something they have not experienced themselves, but this imagination can bring to life the words needed to express a feeling, an image so that the reader can visualize what the writer is trying to create as if they were experiencing it themselves.  

Take for example a film writer.  Some of those ideas have come from imaginations, then someone else has taken that idea and creates something an image or a scene which they have never experienced but which is so believable that we as cinema goers can believe, even though we know it is not true or unlikely to be true or is so far fetched beyond our own imaginations and we take our selves into their world and for a couple of hours believe the imagery that a filmaker and a writer have put together.

Jules Vern wrote about planes and submarines before they were invented.Sometimes , I may need to get a piece of information and I ask a question about it.

He who wrote "Around The World in Eighty Days", did not do that before or after publishing. It really depends on the genre.

On the other hands, I would raise three brows (and maybe an objection board) at an investigative journalist who is more inventive than factual in his writings.

No, imagination is a key...You need to be creative in any way...

No of course not , maybe my personal life intefers in my writings my it's not about my life :)

In my opinion, a writer cannot write about anything unless he is exposed to experince with it; being phisical experinece of experience by reserach or reading about the thing he is writing about.