False Quote by Uncle Haskell

“This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.”

— William Saroyan

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer

“My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.”

— Jack Gantos

“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

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

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 sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

— Elizabeth Wein

“And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder,…

— Clive James

“Writers are born, not created.”

— Tim Campbell

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

— Wallace Stegner