Young Writers Quotes

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

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 about.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

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

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

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

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

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

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

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 stuff to love.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

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

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