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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
I think young writers ought to be heretical.
Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.
Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.
I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive.
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and push a lot of their stories out there.
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.
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.
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
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.
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
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.
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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.
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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.