Age Quote by Arthur Helps

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute…

— Dacia Maraini

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

— Han Suyin

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

— Dana Carvey

When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're…

— Nina Jacobson

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

— Solomon Burke

When you're young, you can be mislead by older people, who know how to manipulate you.

— Garrett Clayton

“In truth, age is a writer’s ally. The greater the experience, the more we have to say. More time to learn important truths, to…

— Randy Kraft

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

— Ray Bradbury

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

— Mary Somerville

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself…

— Ann Brashares