Age Quote by Ben Chasny

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American…

— Brian Lumley

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is…

— Raymond E. Feist

I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the table in…

— John Buffalo Mailer

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even…

— Cynthia Ozick

There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that…

— Rod Serling

I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints…

— Hozier

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people,…

— Michael Dirda

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own…

— Anthony Holden

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being…

— Amanda Hocking