Creative Quote by Flannery O'Connor

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

— Ian Mcewan

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is…

— El-P

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'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

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever…

— Tea Obreht

Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the…

— Gore Vidal

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should…

— John Dos Passos

Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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 think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is…

— Diane Ackerman

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can…

— Len Wein