I write to know what I think.

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

— Josh Widdicombe

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

— Lois Lowry

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

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

— Taylor Momsen

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

— Joan Didion

“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

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

— David Hare

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

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

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

— Paul H Tubb

“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of…

— Joan Didion

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my…

— Gary Shteyngart

“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

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