“Write what you know.”

“Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!”

“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”

“When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.”

“People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”

“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”

“Like I say, the way I write songs is, you know, inspirational. I have to wait for it to happen. And when it happens I get lines, and I just write them down, you know. I'm not sort of a Tin Pan Alley sort of songwriter. I just sort of write down what I get - without censoring or questioning what it is and what it means, you know. Like later on I look at what it means, but not at the time.”

“Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite”

“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”