Humorist Quote by Paul H Tubb

“You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Grace Paley

“The old nut goes, 'Write what you know,' but often a writer is clearer about what he doesn't know and must learn about.”

— Susan Bell

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

— Patricia Hemphall

“So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don’t know shit.”

— Benjamin Percy

“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.”

— Maryann Gestwicki

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

— Brian Koppelman

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

— Tiffany Reisz

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

— Carl Henegan

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

“I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.”

— R.J. Dennis