About Quote by Carrie Brownstein

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

— Joyce Maynard

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

You write about what you know.

— Larry David

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch

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

— Sam Lipsyte

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

I write about what I know.

— Shelby Lynne

The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know…

— W. S. Merwin

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot

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

— Brian Koppelman

There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number…

— Jackie Collins

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale