Adult life Quote by Mark Fisher

I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

— Penny Junor

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the…

— Jane Ridley

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I…

— Maria Edgeworth

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

— Diablo Cody

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 started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

When I was younger, 15 years or 20 years seemed like a really long time. But, as you journey though life, you don't realise…

— Tabu

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that…

— Jason Katims

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