Josh Widdicombe Quotes

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

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

Write what you know.

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.

You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.

You can only really sing about what you know; at least, I can.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Don't write about that which you don't 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!

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

You write about what you know.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

I write about what I know.

Write about what you want to know.

It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.