Be you Quote by Josh Lieb

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

— Lillian Hellman

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 guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

— Paul Auster

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

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

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz

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

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

— Doris Lessing

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

— Cynthia Weil

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're…

— Beth Kephart

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

— Sherwood Anderson