Advice Quote by Steve Toltz

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you…

— Stephen King

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now…

— Sarah Kay

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