Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
Poets take themselves very seriously.
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.