Art critic Quote by W.B. Yeats

Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality…

— William Golding

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

— Ruskin Bond

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in…

— Thomas Browne

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

— Neil Gaiman

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

— David Duchovny

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep…

— Anthony Burgess

For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an…

— Ehud Olmert

“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his…

— Nanci Kincaid

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“old men are the best contenders in telling old stories”

— kwame grundow

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly