About Quote by Daniel H. Wilson

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their…

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Joyce Maynard

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

— Virginia Woolf

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us…

— William Zinsser

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

— Mitski

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

— Alice Walker

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

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

— Rebecca West

I write about what I know.

— Shelby Lynne

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— Alejandro Zambra