Quotes by Young Writers That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Amos Oz young-writers writing advice If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. Andre Gide young-writers refrain writing Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers. David Adams Richards young-writers young 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 young-writers desire thinking 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. Doris Lessing young-writers independence advice Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment. Doris Lessing young-writers judgment advice Don't write about Man; write about a man. E. B. White young-writers writing men 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 opinion college 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. Gabriel Garcia Marquez young-writers important writing 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. Garrison Keillor young-writers ironic writing 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 young-writers stuff jobs I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. Jane Gardam young-writers influence thinking 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. John O'Hara young-writers theme men I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto. John Updike young-writers down-and want There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. Jonathan Ames young-writers suffering young Every writer I know has trouble writing. Joseph Heller young-writers trouble writing 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. Josh Lieb young-writers stuff thinking One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. Joy Williams young-writers young thinking Young writers take themselves very seriously in college. Kyle Kinane young-writers college young 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. Meghan Daum young-writers wife teacher 12»