Writing Quote by David Litt

“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

“An expert is nothing more than a vain person who has read a book.”

— Corey Taylor

“An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert”

— Harry Truman

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,”

— José Saramago

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

— Carl Henegan

“Becoming a successful professional writer implies that one's own mind is entertaining enough to keep the work interesting. ”

— Robert Stump

Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.

— Jonathan Gold

“Being a writer is all about having something to say. And it’d better be interesting. If you don’t have anything interesting to say, don’t…

— Candace Bushnell

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your…

— Valerie Sherwood

“The old nut goes, 'Write what you know,' but often a writer is clearer about what he doesn't know and must learn about.”

— Susan Bell