Advice Quote by Gore Vidal

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

— Brian Koppelman

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

— Meg Wolitzer

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

— Austin Kleon

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

— Cecil Murphey

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

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

— Carrie Brownstein

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they…

— D. J. MacHale

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

— Joel Chandler Harris

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

— Toni Morrison

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

— Philip Pullman