Ignorance Quote by Thomas Pynchon

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

— Grace Paley

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

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

— Richard Peck

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you…

— George Harrison

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

— Colum McCann

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and…

— Cynthia Ozick

Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.

— Alessia Cara

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known.…

— Charles Osgood

“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

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

— Wallace Stegner

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

— Neil Gaiman

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

— Russell Kirk