Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it… — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you… — Valerie Sherwood Copy Share Image
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché “Write what you know.” It is very much a… — Stephen Koch Copy Share Image
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull.… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Write what you know," my ass. Now, I'm not suggesting that you write about my ass. But although you do not, in… — Robyn Parnell Copy Share Image
“I know I should be able to find a story in anything. Good screenwriters can pull interesting films out of the asinine… — Melissa Keil Copy Share Image
“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?” — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
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