You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but… — David Means Copy Share Image
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in… — Neil Gaiman 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
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
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 don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
