Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

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

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

Every now and then, a writer emerges who just gets better and better. These are the really exciting ones to encounter. Their novels carry the promise of so much more to come. Warwick Collins is one such writer.

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.

James Miller has already been declared one of 'London's rising stars', and the central vision of his first novel, 'The Lost Boys,' is wonderfully striking.

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.