Findings Quote by Anonymous

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

— Anonymous

When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good…

— David McCullough

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

— Patricia Hampl

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to…

— David McCullough

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

— Alejandro Zambra

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want…

— Julia Glass

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

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

— Grace Paley

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

— Mitski

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find…

— Jennifer Egan