I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have…

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

— Billy Crystal

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

— Nadine Gordimer

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

— James Crumley

I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away…

— Nick Hornby

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny…

— David Hyde Pierce

I have learned two things in my life: there is a God, and I am not him.

— Rudy Ruettiger

I have learned to take things as they come.

— Mohanlal

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become…

— Isabel Allende

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

— Andrea Dworkin

There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly…

— Marie Calloway

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before…

— Samantha Shannon

I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and…

— Anonymous

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With…

— Philipp Meyer

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law…

— Lynn Coady