Distinction Quote by Allen Ginsberg

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Grace Paley

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

— Colum McCann

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

— Richard Peck

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

— Isadora Duncan

There should be no ideas that cannot be expressed.

— Norah Vincent

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

— Jayni Chase

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

— Patricia Hampl

There should be no means of communication which we cannot read.

— David Cameron

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

— Gertrude Stein

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

— Horace