I don’t know anything I’ve done for the human race, except possibly entertain a minute segment of it from time to time, and I can’t compare myself with Goethe, because I don’t know what he did for the race, either.
– Harold Ross
Tag: know
haiku 610
60th anniversary –
Mom doesn’t know
who Dad is
Quotable 483
The hard part of writing isn’t the writing; it’s the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?
– William Zinsser
haiku 561
cat pee on floor –
don’t ask me
how I know
Quotable 385
I don’t believe in “Write what you know,” but I’m a big believer in “Know what you write.”
– Jim C. Hines
Quotable 383
I want my poems to be wiser than I am, to know more about themselves than I do.
– John Hollander
Quotable 316
Writers; yes you should write what you know. But you can change what you know at any point. Talk to different people. Read different books.
– Jay Stringer