Because Quote by David Mitchell

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

— Jane Gardam

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

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.

— Wallace Stegner

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

— Juvenal

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

— Andre Gide

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you…

— Patrick Modiano

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

— Zadie Smith

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata