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
“Mostly I’m allowing the story to be republished to send a message to young writers who are out there right now, trying… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I also liked it when professors assigned us stories that they love. In general, I liked workshops more when they were more… — Mary J. Miller 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
I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you… — Eoin Colfer 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
“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 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
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
“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
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
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
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of… — Zadie Smith 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
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Stephen King reached out to me twenty-five years ago and taught me some valuable lessons. In return, I've tried to be generous… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
