Quotes About Young authors

My feeling," he explained, "is that a publisher's first allegiance is to talent. And if we aren't going to publish a talent like this, it is a very serious thing." He contended that the ambitious Fitzgerald would be able to find another publisher for this novel and young authors would follow him: "Then we might as well go out of business.

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.