However, he also thought that writers don't necessarily know what they're doing.

This writer doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

I'm a bit surprised the writer of this piece didn't know that.

For all the writer of these lines knows to the contrary, she is living still.

If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride.

But of course, as any writer knows, you can never really get away.

Readers don't like to come to the ends of stories still thinking the writer knows more and isn't going to tell.

If the writers know no better, they close their brains.

Do writers know when they start out how it's going to end?

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong.