Knows Quote by Wallace Stegner

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

— Grace Paley

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

— Richard Peck

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 write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

— Patricia Hampl

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

— Allen Ginsberg

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

— Sam Lipsyte

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

— Anonymous

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

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

— Grace Paley

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

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we…

— Thomas Pynchon

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

— Carrie Brownstein