Young Writers Quotes

Young Writers Quote of the day

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

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

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.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

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.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

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.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

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

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

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

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

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

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

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

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

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.

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

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

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

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.

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.

I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Anythings possible if you've got enough nerve!!!

Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal.

You can best write about your own experiences.

Be brave to share your story! Each of our stories, have a golden treasure for a specific need.