Age Quote by Aaron Sorkin Download Open image “Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age” — Aaron Sorkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Athlete Get better Opposites Writing
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
As professional athletes, we're used to inspiring the next generation, people who are younger than us. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing ER and China Beach. The night before the meeting, some friends were over for dinner and Akiva Goldsman and I slipped downstairs to the basement so we could sneak a cigarette. He said, "You know what… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
