Young Writer Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer… — Mario Vargas Llosa
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a… — Brad Gooch
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to… — Elwyn Brooks White
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose… — Charles Baudelaire
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will… — John Berryman
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldnâ€™t hesitate to do so. — Andre Gide
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,'… — Henry Sydnor Harrison
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the… — Julia Alvarez
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young… — Octavia Butler
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the… — Raymond E. Feist
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel… — Tea Obreht
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 too… — Alice Munro
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. — Joy Williams
Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's… — Ross Douthat
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience. — Joe Haldeman
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They… — Ray Bradbury
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you… — Neil Gaiman
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to… — Paul Engle
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we… — Joyce Carol Oates
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good… — Garrison Keillor

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