Trying Quote by Anonymous

When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Josh Radnor

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

The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And…

— T.C. Boyle

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

— Robert Frost

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

— Alejandro Zambra

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

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf