Young Writers

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

"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."

David Foster Wallace Writer

"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."

W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

Ray Bradbury Author

"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."