Age Quote by William Shakespeare

For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and focus in…

— Chris Claremont

I find whenever someone writes anything about me, my age is right after my name. It's almost like they're saying, 'Here she is, but…

— Madonna

I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.

— Amanda Warren

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

— Carey Mulligan

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

— Jacqueline Woodson

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

— Paul Auster

I never really get to play a character who's my own age. I kind of look a little bit younger for my age.

— Emily Osment

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare

I just did what any writer does, tried to listen to the characters, whether they're 18 or 80.

— Ol Parker

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

— Sara Zarr

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

— Mindy Kaling