Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Young Writers Quotes from famous persons: Dorothy Allison, Pat Conroy, Tom Stoppard, Irvine Welsh, Derek Walcott. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Young Writers Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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I think young writers ought to be heretical.
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Young writers reasonably say, ‘I don’t know what to write about,’ so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
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Young writers need to be encouraged to write – just write – with no restrictions on form, style or content.
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A lot of young writers ask me about my process. They know what they want to write – but they need to know how. What’s the right way? How do the professionals do it? What’s the secret?
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What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don’t want complicated feelings.
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Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
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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.
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I’m just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
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