Young Writers Quotes
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Young Writers Quotes & Sayings
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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.
— George Saunders
The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.
— Maggie Young
I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.
— John Updike
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
— Lillian Hellman
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.
— David Adams Richards
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
— Paul Auster
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
— Zadie Smith
Writers cleave together like a demonic AA group - we are singularly able to dance with each other's devils...
— J.D. Young
A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.
— Robert Anderson
I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.
— Robin Williams
Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another."Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast. — Ernest Hemingway,
With the young writers now it's F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.
— Margaret Atwood
It is not your job to convince men to like you.
— Maggie Young
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.
— Flannery O'Connor
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.
— Kelley Armstrong
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.
— Daniel Handler
I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
— Pat Conroy
I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.
— Katori Hall
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
— Patrick Kavanagh
I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
— K.A. Applegate
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
— Dennis Potter
Young people ask why I became a writer, as if it were something I decided. I didn't decide; it grew on me like ivy.
— M.V. Carey
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
— Marguerite Young
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
— J.B. Priestley
All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.
— Ann Marie Frohoff
My advice to young writers is, if you can't marry money, at least don't marry envy.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.
— Kyle Kinane
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
— Jonathan Ames
If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.
— Sarah Elwell
What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. — Charles Bukowski
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
— Paul Auster
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
— Marguerite Young
Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
— Susanna Moore
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
— Robert Morgan
INTERVIEWER:What specific piece of advice would you give to young writers?
MALAMUD:
Write your heart out. — Bernard Malamud
When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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.
— David Foster Wallace
I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.
— Maggie Young
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.
— Robert Boswell
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
— Erica Jong
