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.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
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.
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.
I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
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 take themselves very seriously in college.
Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
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.
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
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.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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.
