Age Quote by Carlisle Floyd

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

— George Saunders

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening…

— Tom Perrotta

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

— Natalie Prass

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed…

— Margaret Atwood

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

— Rick Riordan

It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it will tap…

— Masha Gessen

I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I…

— Waldo Salt

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would…

— A. E. van Vogt

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that…

— George Saunders

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my…

— Don Winslow

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

— Charles Bukowski