Cop Quote by George V. Higgins

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

— Brian Koppelman

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

— Vu Tran

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

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

— Frederick Busch

That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you…

— Ellen Wittlinger

I write to discover what I know.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Josh Radnor

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

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

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

— Joan Didion

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that…

— Dan Chaon

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue