I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could…

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

— Michael Moore

“Forget what they say about “write what you know.” Write what excites your imagination, and the knowledge you need can be acquired. And if…

— Charles Kowalski

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything.…

— Toni Morrison

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the…

— Uma Thurman

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want…

— Julia Glass

They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

— Melissa Marr

I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother…

— Duncan Roy

I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.

— Kartik Aaryan

I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a…

— Sudha Murty

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I come from a middle class family, so most of my content comes from home.

— Bhuvan Bam

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.

— Mithila Palkar

We were quite a middle class family, but we had access to all the good things in life, be it books or access to…

— Kiran Rao

For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors…

— Stephanie Coontz

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

— Ellen Page