Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only…

A common and usually unfortunate answer is “Write about what you know.” Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination, nothing is quicker to…

— John Gardner

Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann,…

— Haruki Murakami

“Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and…

— Issa Rae

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

— Dan Auerbach

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and…

— Luke Temple

“I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that I might…

— Chila Woychik

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but…

— Chris Chibnall

It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's…

— Marge Piercy

“The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.”

— L.M. Montgomery

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

— Anne Sexton

“Writing what you know" is about as much fun as having an affair with your spouse.”

— Gordon Highland

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.”

— Millicent Ashby