Know Quote by Grace Paley

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

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Richard Peck

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

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

— Patricia Hemphall

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

— Sam Lipsyte

You write about what you know.

— Larry David

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

— Grace Paley

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

— Colum McCann

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

— Gertrude Stein

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