“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.”
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American writer 1931–2019Related quotes
“When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.”
Source: The Carrie Diaries
As quoted in his letter to Jan Bialoblocki, written in Zelazowa Wola and dated back to December 24th 1826[citation needed]
“You don't know what I'm all about / Like killing cops and reading Kerouac”
"Boxcar"
24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993)
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes https://books.google.com/books?id=NIhKY8SpAE4C&q=%22You%20don%27t%20write%20because%20you%20want%20to%20say%20something%3B%20you%20write%20because%20you%27ve%20got%20something%20to%20say.%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter V
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about”
