Advice Quote by Stephen King

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

— Steve Toltz

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

— Austin Kleon

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

— Brian Koppelman

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

— Donald Windham

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you…

— Gore Vidal

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid…

— Annie Proulx

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

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

— David Bailey

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want…

— Julia Glass

It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and…

— Issa Rae

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

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the…

— Douglas Coupland