Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know…

— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

— Patricia Hampl

“You don't write what you know you write to find out what you don't know”

— Patricia Hemphall

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

— Richard Peck

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

— G-Eazy

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it;…

— Philip Johnson

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

— Haruki Murakami

You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so…

— Joe Haldeman

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

— Joe Haldeman

“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