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.
Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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.
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.
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 guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.