Adage Quote by Julia Glass

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

— Brian Koppelman

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

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

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

— Tommy Lee

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

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

— Cecil Murphey

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

— Sam Lipsyte

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

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

“Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.”

— Tiffany Reisz

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

— Josh Radnor

When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what…

— Anonymous