Able Quote by Viola Davis

“You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting…

— William Saroyan

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

— Wallace Stegner

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it…

— Anne Tyler

It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new devices would,…

— Cynthia Ozick

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should…

— John Dos Passos

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

— John Updike

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

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take…

— Lisa Gardner

“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