Ifs Quote by Andre Gide

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

— Wallace Stegner

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

— Kelley Armstrong

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read…

— Alice Munro

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should…

— Wallace Stegner

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

— Lillian Hellman

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

— William Zinsser

“the thing you are most afraid to write write that -- advice to young writers”

— Nayyirah Waheed

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read…

— Alice Munro

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

— Paul Auster

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

— John Updike