George V. Higgins Quotes

People can tell if you don't know what you're talking about.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

I'd just make sure with anything I say I know what I'm talking about.

I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.

It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat.

Don't write about that which you don't know.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.