Bit Quote by Issa Rae

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

— Joe R. Lansdale

You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . .…

— Sabrina Jeffries

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

— Colum McCann

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

— Amos Oz

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you…

— William T. Vollmann

“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when…

— Ken Kesey

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

— Dennis Potter

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

“The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché “Write what you know.” It is very much a cliché, and…

— Stephen Koch

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now…

— Sarah Kay

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down…

— Alan Lightman