In an interview Siri Hustvedt was asked “What tips or advice do you have for writers still looking to be discovered?”
Her answer was interesting and also quite clear:
My first piece of advice is read, read, read, and keep reading. Nobody becomes a writer without loving books. My other tip to young writers is: write only what you must write, not what you think you should write. People who simply want to turn out a poem, a story, or a novel end up writing badly and their prose resembles the prose of other mediocre books. Good books are a product of necessity, a burning need to say something. They have an urgency that the reader can feel from the start.
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