Eighty Quote by Octavia Butler

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial…

— Anonymous

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to…

— Julie Powell

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

“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of…

— John le Carré

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the…

— William Faulkner

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

— Joanna Trollope

“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles…

— Anthony Liccione

I guess you go back to the old writer's adage that when they do your stuff in Hollywood, you smile sweetly upon your credit…

— Chris Claremont

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

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done,…

— William Faulkner

“A writer should remember that about his muse there is a great deal of the Siren. He should view his mental offspring as relentlessly…

— F.L. Lucas

“‎Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.”

— Dipesh Nepal

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I…

— Claes Oldenburg

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On…

— Zach Braff