Advice Quote by John Irving

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

— Lillian Hellman

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing…

— Lillian Hellman

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're…

— David Means

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

— Rachel Cusk

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— John Updike

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

— Wallace Stegner

I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would…

— David Sedaris

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they…

— R. L. Stine

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