Advice Quote by Lillian Hellman

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

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Wallace Stegner

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

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

“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there are so…

— Lauren Carr

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,…

— Judy Blume

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They…

— John Irving

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

— Lynn Coady