Best Quote by Zadie Smith

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

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

— John Updike

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some…

— George Saunders

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

— Paul Auster

Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things…

— Josh Lieb

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

— 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

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

— Wallace Stegner

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies…

— Dorothy Parker

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

— Toni Cade Bambara