Emulate Quote by Poppy Z. Brite

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

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

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

— Paul Auster

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I…

— Oscar Hijuelos

“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

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What…

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— John Updike

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

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz

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

— Zadie Smith

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright