Adopting Quote by Charles Stross

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on…

— Toni Morrison

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all…

— James Gandolfini

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen…

— David Sedaris

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends…

— Charles Stross

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

— Candace Bushnell

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

— Anonymous

Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to…

— Angie Thomas

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

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

— Irvine Welsh

Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still want that…

— Lynne Tillman

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or…

— Laura Z. Hobson