Age Quote by Martin Amis

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

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems…

— William Styron

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

— Richard K. Morgan

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

— Charles Bukowski

"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And…

— Paul Weller

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

— John Updike

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim…

— Samuel Johnson

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute…

— Dacia Maraini

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends…

— Charles Stross

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves…

— Tom Wolfe