Age Quote by John Updike

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on…

— Toni Morrison

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who…

— Charles Koch

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

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 much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

— Thea Sharrock

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

— Martin Amis

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay,…

— Rick Yancey

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