Advice Quote by Annie Proulx

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

— Steve Toltz

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

— Donald Windham

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

— Austin Kleon

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

“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 deeply—and your…

— Valerie Sherwood

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you…

— Stephen King

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

— Cecil Murphey

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance…

— Rose Tremain

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

— Eudora Welty

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you…

— Gore Vidal

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

— Brian Koppelman

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz