Find Quote by Robert J. Sawyer

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

— Abi Morgan

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

— John Edgar Wideman

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

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— Nancy Hale

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to how you…

— Dawn Goodwin

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

— Amos Oz

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

— Joel Chandler Harris

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

— Terrence McNally

“For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to…

— Edith Schaeffer