Arrogant Quote by Emma Healey

People who write off women over 40 are wrong to do so. This is when many women's lives truly start.

— Ulrika Jonsson

The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I…

— Margaret Atwood

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

— Imelda May

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that…

— Greg Mottola

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up…

— Guy Lafleur

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

— Ellen Goodman

I did a lot during my lifetime and I think it is time to make a change to my life at a young age…

— Frank Lowy

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being…

— Sheila Heti

You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm…

— Maggie Carey

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started…

— Paul G. Tremblay