Be encouraged Quote by Kelley Armstrong

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

— Wallace Stegner

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 find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of…

— John McPhee

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

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

— Andre Gide

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

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

— Lillian Hellman

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly…

— Serge Schmemann

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

— Nayyirah Waheed

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

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

— Lloyd Alexander