Age Quote by James Thurber

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even…

— Cynthia Ozick

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

— Norman MacCaig

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and…

— John Kendrick Bangs

“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has…

— C.S. Lewis

“At the age of ninety-two, James spent months hunched over the kitchen table, learning the alphabet, practicing his signature, and slowly progressing to reading…

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— C. S. Lewis

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of…

— Virginia Woolf

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've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

— Margaret Drabble

“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called ‘children’s books’. I think the convention…

— C.S. Lewis