About Quote by Melody Gardot

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

— Walter Dean Myers

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

I write about what I know.

— Shelby Lynne

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

— Carrie Brownstein

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

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

— Dennis Potter

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

— Beverly Cleary

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

— Sabrina Jeffries