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
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
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. — Marlon James 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
“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
Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Of course some people manage to write books really young and publish really young. But for most writers, it takes several years… — Cheryl Strayed 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
Of course at that point I had no idea that the adventure was only beginning and that the struggle and the rejections… — Vera Nazarian 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
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I kind of wish people didn’t know who I am, that I could just lie, say I’m a speechwriter for Obama. This… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson 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
“I feel strongly against professionalism, against someone’s feeling he has to write a book every year to keep his name before the… — Peter Taylor 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
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another." -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto. — John Updike Copy Share Image
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He… — Brad Gooch Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Stephen King reached out to me twenty-five years ago and taught me some valuable lessons. In return, I've tried to be generous… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
