Advice Quote by Austin Kleon

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

Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.

— Chris Humphreys

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

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

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

— Amos Oz

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

— Cecil Murphey

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid…

— Annie Proulx

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

— Brian Koppelman

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

— Sam Lipsyte

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

— Josh Widdicombe

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

— Eudora Welty