Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart 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
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
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 shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move… — Poppy Z. Brite 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
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the… — Ray Bradbury 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
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content. — Kelley Armstrong 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
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
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
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 I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“When a writer first begins to write, he or she feels the same first thrill of achievement that the young gambler or… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their… — Cyril Connolly 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 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
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
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
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. — Wallace Stegner 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
