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title: "156 Write Know Quotes by 138 authors"
description: "Browse 156 Write Know quotes by 138 authors. Discover the best Write Know sayings and thoughts."
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> [We write to know we are not alone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-nicholson/we-write-to-know-we-are-not-alone/)

[William Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-nicholson/)

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> [You have to write what you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taika-waititi/you-have-to-write-what-you-know/)

[Taika Waititi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taika-waititi/)

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> [“I write to know what I think.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-write-to-know-what-i-think/)

[Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/)

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> [You write about what you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-david/you-write-about-what-you-know/)

[Larry David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-david/)

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> [Write what you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/write-what-you-know/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I write about what I know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shelby-lynne/i-write-about-what-i-know/)

[Shelby Lynne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shelby-lynne/)

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> [I can only write about what I know, I'd be crap anywhere else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kay/i-can-only-write-about-what-i-know-i-d-be-crap-anywhere-else/)

[Peter Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kay/)

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> [Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-nemerov/write-what-you-know-that-should-leave-you-with-a-lot-of-free-time/)

[Howard Nemerov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-nemerov/)

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> [I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-van-den-berg/i-ve-always-found-the-write-what-you-know-axiom-small-and-stifling/)

[Laura van den Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-van-den-berg/)

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> [The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-kleon/the-best-advice-is-not-to-write-what-you-know-it-s-to-write-what-you-2/)

[Austin Kleon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/austin-kleon/)

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> [You know, I think good writers write about what they know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melody-gardot/you-know-i-think-good-writers-write-about-what-they-know/)

[Melody Gardot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melody-gardot/)

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> [To know whom to write for is to know how to write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/to-know-whom-to-write-for-is-to-know-how-to-write/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [“Write what you know and embroider the rest - Sue Cross”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-cross/write-what-you-know-and-embroider-the-rest-sue-cross/)

[Sue Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-cross/)

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> [I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-winehouse/i-m-a-young-woman-and-i-m-going-to-write-about-what-i-know/)

[Amy Winehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-winehouse/)

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> [When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sholom-aleichem/when-you-die-others-who-think-they-know-you-will-concoct-things-about/)

[Sholom Aleichem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sholom-aleichem/)

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> [More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-biersack/more-than-anything-i-write-about-what-i-know-the-experiences-that-i/)

[Andy Biersack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-biersack/)

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> [I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-west/i-really-write-to-find-out-what-i-know-about-something-and-what-is-to/)

[Rebecca West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-west/)

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> [I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/i-write-about-what-i-know-and-what-i-have-experienced-this-keeps-me/)

[Will Eisner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-eisner/)

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> [The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-kelley/the-way-i-personally-work-is-i-like-to-write-what-i-know-what-i-feel/)

[David E. Kelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-kelley/)

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> [It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/it-is-for-this-partly-that-i-write-how-can-i-know-what-i-think-unless/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

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> [I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hare/i-m-trying-to-write-something-in-which-you-know-that-it-s-all-about/)

[David Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hare/)

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> [Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-chandler-harris/write-about-what-you-know-and-care-deeply-about-when-one-puts-one-s/)

[Joel Chandler Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-chandler-harris/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sherwood/don-t-write-what-you-know-what-you-know-may-bore-you-and-thus-bore/)

[Valerie Sherwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sherwood/)

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> [ I think writers would do better to consider that idea \[to write to yourself\], because you know yourself really well, and you… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/i-think-writers-would-do-better-to-consider-that-idea-to-write-to/)

[Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/)

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> [Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/everybody-gets-told-to-write-about-what-they-know-the-trouble-with/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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> [I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-tippin/i-write-about-what-i-know-and-what-i-ve-experienced-that-s-the-only/)

[Aaron Tippin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-tippin/)

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> [You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-reiner/you-d-only-write-what-you-know-and-what-you-know-is-what-you-do-and/)

[Carl Reiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-reiner/)

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> [The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-jackson/the-key-to-being-a-wonderful-writer-is-not-to-write-you-just-get-out/)

[Michael Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-jackson/)

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> [Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/creative-writing-teachers-should-be-purged-until-every-last/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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> [“The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché “Write what you know.” It is very much a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-koch/the-most-familiar-of-all-advice-on-writing-is-the-old-classroom-clich/)

[Stephen Koch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-koch/)

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> [Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-quinn/most-beginning-writers-and-i-was-the-same-are-like-chefs-trying-to/)

[Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-quinn/)

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> [Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-saylor/not-write-what-you-know-but-know-what-you-write-if-you-write-about-a/)

[Steven Saylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-saylor/)

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> [Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geraldine-brooks/write-what-you-know-every-guide-for-the-aspiring-author-advises-this/)

[Geraldine Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geraldine-brooks/)

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> [“Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow-2/writing-teachers-invariably-tell-students-write-about-what-you-know/)

[E.L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow-2/)

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> [“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-kesey/one-of-the-dumbest-things-you-were-ever-taught-was-to-write-what-you/)

[Ken Kesey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-kesey/)

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> [“People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/people-tell-you-to-write-what-you-know-but-i-ve-found-that-writing/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

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> [“Write what you know," my ass. Now, I'm not suggesting that you write about my ass. But although you do not, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robyn-parnell/write-what-you-know-my-ass-now-i-m-not-suggesting-that-you-write/)

[Robyn Parnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robyn-parnell/)

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> [“I know I should be able to find a story in anything. Good screenwriters can pull interesting films out of the asinine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-keil/i-know-i-should-be-able-to-find-a-story-in-anything-good/)

[Melissa Keil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-keil/)

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> [“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-carver/write-what-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-better-than-your-own-secrets/)

[Raymond Carver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-carver/)

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> [Write about what you know, that's what I say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-widdicombe/write-about-what-you-know-that-s-what-i-say/)

[Josh Widdicombe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-widdicombe/)

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                        "text": "Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?",
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                        "text": "“The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché “Write what you know.” It is very much a cliché, and it is going to get rather rough treatment over the course of this book. Yet, like most clichés, it has the residual virtue of being a halftruth.”",
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                        "text": "“People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up. It's easier to research a historical period than your own life, and it's much easier to deal with things that have a little less emotional weight and where you have a little more detachment. It's terrible advice! So this is why you'll find there's no such place as the Welsh valleys, no coal under them, and no red buses running up and down them; there never was such a year as 1979, no such age as fifteen, and no such planet as Earth. The fairies are real, though.”",
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