Crafts Quote by Grace Paley

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

— Sam Lipsyte

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

— Eudora Welty

“You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.”

— Grace Paley

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

— Patricia Hampl

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

— Brian Koppelman

The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And…

— T.C. Boyle

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

— Josh Widdicombe

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

— Colum McCann

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

— Patricia Hemphall

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

You write about what you know.

— Larry David

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

— Grace Paley