Writing Quote by Benjamin Percy

“You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

— Hank Moody

“You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.”

— Grace Paley

“That’s the problem with people. Everyone thinks they know everything until they’re proven to know nothing.”

— Jay McLean

“People think they want to know everything these days. But they don’t. They really don’t. So”

— Tom DeLonge

“Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know nothing. You…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.”

— Paul H Tubb

“You don't write what you know you write to find out what you don't know”

— Patricia Hemphall

“You can't teach a know-it-all, because they already know.”

— DE Overman

“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

— Wayson Choy

“People should know, only what they need to know.”

— Amy Rachiele

“There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.”

— Louis Armstrong