Younger Writers Quotes

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.