First place Quote by John McPhee

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should…

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Wallace Stegner

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

— Kelley Armstrong

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should…

— John Dos Passos

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.

— Lloyd Alexander

“the thing you are most afraid to write write that -- advice to young writers”

— Nayyirah Waheed

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

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to…

— James A. Michener

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois