Age Quote by Samuel Johnson

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

— Neil Gaiman

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

— John Berger

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

— Martin Amis

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

— Richard K. Morgan

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

— Margaret Drabble

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even…

— Lev Grossman

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to…

— John Updike

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

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment