An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.