Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one…

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

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

— David Hare

“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

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. A friend of mine…

— Anne Lamott

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the…

— Anne Lamott

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at…

— Erma Bombeck

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

— Charles M. Schulz

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

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

— Paul H Tubb