““One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?" [ Remember This: Write What You Don't Know ( New York Times Book Review , December 31, 1989)]””
![“[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.” quote by William T. Vollmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0e0/william-t-vollmann-2100_can-do_ernest-hemingway-always-said-write-about_1098180.jpg)
