Beginning Quote by Patrick Modiano

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

— Kelley Armstrong

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

“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try…

— Don DeLillo

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow

Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it's just like going to the gym. You're just stiff and weird, and you…

— Tamara Jenkins

Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell…

— Andrea Brown

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Willa Cather

The desire to write grows with writing.

— Desiderius Erasmus

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is…

— Diane Ackerman

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

— Wallace Stegner

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must…

— Siri Hustvedt