To advise or not to advise?

Every so often I hear writers say, in response to someone asking for their best advice for aspiring writers, “The best writing advice is to not pay any attention to writing advice!” This bugs me.I get the whole beat to the drum of your own march thing, because yeah, we’ve all had to say “lolbleep the haters” at some point in our careers to get where we are. But while we all know that you can’t let someone dictate to you the only one true wayof creating art,...