Heretical Quote by Derek Walcott

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

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Paul Auster

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it…

— Anne Tyler

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth;…

— Jill Paton Walsh

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

— Lillian Hellman

“Young writers get false ideas from indiscreet praise.”

— Uncle Haskell

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

— Candace Bushnell

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

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing…

— Robert Cormier

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the…

— William Styron

I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with…

— Viola Davis