I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels…

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people…

— Ruth Ware

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they…

— D. J. MacHale

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter…

— Rick Riordan

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant…

— Dean Koontz

“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in. By reading…

— Vera Nazarian

The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the…

— Cheryl Strayed

About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being…

— Barry B. Longyear

“Find tricks to keep yourself going,” William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. “Anything you can do to trick yourself…

— Ralph Keyes

Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage…

— Patrick Modiano

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

— Susan Orlean

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris…

— William Kennedy

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red…

— Jim Harrison

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

— Anne Fortier

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to…

— Khaled Hosseini