Currents Quote by Lamont Dozier

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

— Paul Auster

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

— Paul Auster

I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

— Sarah Lancashire

Minor writers think style is all.

— Derek Walcott

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

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Lillian Hellman

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

— Aristotle

I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with…

— Viola Davis

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

— Derek Walcott

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

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

— John Updike

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

— Zadie Smith