Funny Quote by Gail Godwin

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

— Robert Frost

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

— Patricia Hemphall

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things…

— Andy Rooney

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find…

— Jennifer Egan

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.

— Anonymous

I write to discover what I know.

— Flannery O'Connor

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

— Colum McCann

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

— Don DeLillo

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.

— John Owen

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want…

— Julia Glass

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

— Josh Radnor