The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with… — John Banville Copy Share Image
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman 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
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
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
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
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
Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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
There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either… — John D'Agata 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 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
“The page-a-day folks had done well and generally gotten tenure. The so-called “binge writers” fared far less well, and many had had… — Roy F. Baumeister 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
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
For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice… — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
The first thing I would say to young writers is, "Don't do it, unless you can't stand not to do it." And… — Russell Hoban 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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 you're a young writer and you look at people praising a big hefty anthology that has uncovered a long lost genre,… — John D'Agata 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
