Energy Quote by Anthony Doerr

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

— Hisham Matar

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not…

— Josh Lieb

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

— Marilyn Hacker

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

— John Updike

You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.

— Alan Cohen

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

— Paul Auster

I feel like having something that you're passionate about helps to keep you young.

— Paul Dano

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster

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

— Amos Oz

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

— Wallace Stegner

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

— Anonymous

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

— Christopher Paul Curtis