Ambitious Quote by Jim Butcher

I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I…

— George Saunders

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The…

— Meghan Daum

When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so…

— Lucy Calkins

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I…

— William Golding

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…

— Charles Baudelaire

Of course at that point I had no idea that the adventure was only beginning and that the struggle and the rejections were to…

— Vera Nazarian

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…

— Brad Gooch

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I…

— Nikki Giovanni

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with…

— Paul Johnson

When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I…

— Neil Gaiman

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is…

— Ian Mcewan

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over…

— Ross Douthat

Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was…

— Mordecai Richler

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the…

— Adriana Trigiani