Knows Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

— Grace Paley

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

— Eudora Welty

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

— Patricia Hampl

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

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

— Gertrude Stein

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Colum McCann

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

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we…

— Thomas Pynchon

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

— Pete Townshend

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

— Isadora Duncan