Age Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

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

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our…

— Helen Dunmore

As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different ways.

— Amanda Schull

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of…

— Mae Whitman

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet…

— Fred Rogers

“The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. you…

— Neil Gaiman

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors.

— Anatole Broyard

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

— Patrick Kavanagh

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and…

— Ray Bradbury

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never…

— Edmund Burke

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to…

— Bonnie Friedman

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

— John Dufresne