Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to…

“A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturally brave. But what…

— C. JoyBell C

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

“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”

— Felisberto Hernandez

“Definitely. You cannot write about what you do not know, nor can you write for people you do not understand. You’ll need to know…

— Georgia Le Carre

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything.…

— Toni Morrison

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

— Colum McCann

“You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.”

— Brandon Sanderson

The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull…

— Ice Cube

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

— Richard Peck

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

— Austin Kleon

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

— Cecil Murphey

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

— Virginia Woolf

“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.”

— Maryann Gestwicki

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman