Artistic life Quote by Patrick Kavanagh

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

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

— Flannery O'Connor

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is…

— Ian Mcewan

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

— Lillian Hellman

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn…

— Dorothy Allison

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

— Paul Auster

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

— Ben Yagoda

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

— John Updike

“Young writers get false ideas from indiscreet praise.”

— Uncle Haskell

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies…

— Dorothy Parker

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro