Writing Quote by William Trevor

“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”

— Felisberto Hernandez

“Prior knowledge is vital to comprehension because writers omit information.”

— Terry Marselle

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Paul H Tubb

“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion,…

— John Steinbeck

“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may…

— Russell M. Goldfarb

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— José Saramago

“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

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there…

— Ernest Hemingway