Character Quote by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you…

— William T. Vollmann

“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when…

— Ken Kesey

The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing…

— George Packer

The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it…

— Rodney Crowell

I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to…

— Lewis Grizzard

I grew up in Spanish Town, it was my whole little world. Culturally, everything I know came from there - school, church, music.

— Koffee

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

— Joyce Maynard

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

— Cecil Murphey

I am very interested in writers from the Francophone world. I like Kamel Daoud a lot, for example. In "The Meursault Investigation" and "Zabor,"…

— Emmanuel Macron

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

— Jose Andres

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

— Karlie Kloss

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you…

— Tracy Chevalier