Age Quote by William Styron

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers…

— William Styron

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems…

— William Styron

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know…

— Arthur Bradford

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

— Connie Willis

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will…

— Mister Lemur

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

— Alexander McCall Smith

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

— Ian Mcewan

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

— Derek Walcott

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Paul Auster