Apprenticeship Quote by Wallace Stegner

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

— Kelley Armstrong

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

— Lillian Hellman

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

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

— John Updike

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

— Paul Auster

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

— Andre Gide

“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

“the thing you are most afraid to write write that -- advice to young writers”

— Nayyirah Waheed

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing…

— Lillian Hellman

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 am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to…

— James A. Michener