Bedtime Quote by Anonymous

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

— Paul Auster

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

— Wallace Stegner

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

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

— Lillian Hellman

I write with teenagers in mind.

— Bernard Beckett

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

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

— Zadie Smith

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

— Charlie Brooker

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

— Iain Lawrence

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or…

— Laura Z. Hobson

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

— John Updike