Generations Quote by Zachary Knighton

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

— John Updike

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know…

— Arthur Bradford

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

I don't think of myself as a guy who writes for kids, I really don't. I try really hard to write a good, solid…

— Dan Schneider

When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was that experience.…

— Tanya Saracho

Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then…

— Sharon Horgan

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as…

— John D'Agata

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

— Rachel Cusk

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever