Learning Quote by David McCullough

When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good…

— David McCullough

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

— Anonymous

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

— Patricia Hampl

When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what…

— Anonymous

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

— Alejandro Zambra

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now…

— Sarah Kay

The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And…

— T.C. Boyle

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

— S. I. Hayakawa

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't…

— Andrew Motion

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

— Colum McCann