Art Quote by Tracy Keenan Wynn

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Zadie Smith

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

I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s…

— Gore Vidal

There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that…

— Lloyd Kaufman

I guess if you try to write with honesty and emotional truth, then that will resonate no matter what the age of the viewer.

— Ol Parker

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

— Wallace Stegner

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good…

— Martin Amis