My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but…

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

— Plato

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write…

— Bruce Springsteen

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.

— Ravi Zacharias

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.

— David Hare

“The old nut goes, 'Write what you know,' but often a writer is clearer about what he doesn't know and must learn about.”

— Susan Bell

“When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall…

— Ronald P. Chavez

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

— Taylor Momsen

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

— Josh Widdicombe

Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for…

— Michael Scott

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now…

— Sarah Kay

“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.”

— Paul H Tubb