Write what you know and embroider the rest - Sue Cross

Concentrate, don't embroider.

— Spencer Tracy

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

— Roger Verge

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

— Anton Chekhov

“You’ve already said all that. Don’t embroider on it, but prove it!”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

— Donna Tartt

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

— Paul H Tubb

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

— Josh Widdicombe

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

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

“The old nut goes, 'Write what you know,' but often a writer is clearer about what he doesn't know and must learn about.”

— Susan Bell

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

— David Hare

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

— Taylor Momsen

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now…

— Sarah Kay

“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