Writing Quote by Susan Bell

“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.”

— Paul H Tubb

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

— Brandon Sanderson

“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

— Wayson Choy

“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when…

— Ken Kesey

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

— Tiffany Reisz

“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your…

— Valerie Sherwood

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you…

— William T. Vollmann

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts.…

— Jarod Kintz

“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story,…

— Susan J. McIntire

“If you’re working with a writer, chances are you’re an expert. And if you’re an expert, chances are you’re boring. You can’t help it.…

— David Litt

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,”

— José Saramago