Creating Quote by Tom Robbins

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

— John Gardner

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

“...why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not…

— Elif Shafak

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something.…

— Toni Morrison

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

— John Irving

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

— Joe Haldeman

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting…

— Yasmin Ahmad

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

“One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers get their ideas all…

— Edgardo H Pangilinan