“Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.”
William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
Page 180.
A Grammar of the English Language (1818)
“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!”
"Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)
Variant: In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.
Source: The Essential Gore Vidal
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