If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space. — Zadie Smith 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
“And that was how the young writer found love, just when he had stopped looking for it.” — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom… — Garrison Keillor 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
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
“and although the young writer never met his literary mentor, the spiritual connection between the two writers would never be dissolved.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond… — Raymond E. Feist 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
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
On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with,… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing… — William Saroyan 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
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic… — John Gardner 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
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
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst… — Anonymous 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
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
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of… — Mario Vargas Llosa 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
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
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
As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term… — Laura van den Berg 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
