Curtains Quote by Mike White

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

— Mary Karr

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be…

— David Bowie

It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that…

— Sara Shepard

“I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when I'm not…

— Robin McKinley

In the past, I've always written about my experiences, and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that I've never…

— Cassadee Pope

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me.…

— Charles M. Blow

“No one likes to talk about the positive parts of getting older and aging into orphanhood, how with your parents you often bury a…

— Jill McCorkle

As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something…

— Sam Smith

“In old magazines and newspapers we find a number of uncomfortably revealing things: the aged as young, the dead as living, forgotten people as…

— Robert Grudin

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience…

— Bruce Springsteen

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and…

— Julia Cameron

The one concession I've made as I've gotten older is that my children are now adults and they're in their twenties and thirties and…

— Mary Jo Salter