Ambition Quote by Wallace Stegner

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

— Wallace Stegner

“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

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

— Kelley Armstrong

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

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

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

— Andre Gide

Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a…

— Sabaa Tahir

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

— Paul Auster

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

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

— Irwin Shaw

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner