“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
If I had a script that I was ready to shoot tomorrow, I'd work on it every day until we got into… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
“The question one asks of the young writer who wants to know if he's got what it takes is this: "Is writing… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions,… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing… — Henry Sydnor Harrison Copy Share Image
“Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any way one can,… — john gardner Copy Share Image
“Many earnest young writers with a flow of adjectives and a passion for detail have attempted to describe the quiet of a… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time,… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
“These works are handed down from teacher to pupil, from parent to child, almost without question, like DNA. They are memorized, recited,… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff.… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
