Ends Quote by Gore Vidal

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

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will.…

— Penelope Lively

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out…

— KT Tunstall

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

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

You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new…

— Joseph Murphy

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

— Charles Bukowski

Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and…

— Sara Shandler

When you're 21 you think, "Old people sound like this. Old people think like this." I don't think my ideas about aging and about…

— Hanya Yanagihara

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