I write about what I know.

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

— Josh Widdicombe

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

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

— Lois Lowry

I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt…

— David B. Coe

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff

“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