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“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Might Age Written Danger Particular Miracle Disaster Denial California Exposed

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”

“What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.”

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Author:Peter Brodie

“What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.”

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Author:Peter Brodie

“I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.”

“'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...”

Want Persons Ideas Age Race Class Written Identity Reader Pages Gender Naked Intimacy Agency Connecting Thrilling Nationality Written Word Tautology

Author:Will Self

“I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".”

People Thinking Giving Looks Different Age Imagination Pleasure Roles Too Much Written Fashion Style Expression Horror Clothes Envy Appropriate Joyous

Author:Elizabeth Heyert

“Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.”

Age Lying Belief Behinds Written Golden Looking Back Golden Age

Book:Looking Backward 2000-1887

Source: Looking Backward 2000-1887

“Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.”

Seems Age Political Leadership Leader Written Danger Absence Giants Retrospect Discord Spawn

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.”

Thinking Knows World Book Enough Age Universe Written Mankind Creation Nine Prophet Over It World History Cozy

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.”

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Book:A story garden for little children

Source: A story garden for little children

“A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.”

Humans Made Book Different Hands Age Taken Written Magic Bible Criticism Historical Made It Investigation Literary Criticism Composites Different Ages Many Hands

Author:Bill Vaughan

“My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.”

Ifs Knows Needs I Can Book Age Young My Own Written Ashamed Privacy

Book:Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949

Source: Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949

“I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.”

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Author:Nora Ephron

“There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.”

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Author:Richard Armour

“Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.”

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Author:Judy Blume

“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel that leaves us with some revealing snapshots of America, both at war and in denial, and some telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood.”

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Author:Michiko Kakutani

“I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.”

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Author:Michael Scott

“I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."”

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Author:Andrew Davies

“There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?”

“I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."”

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Author:Donna Tartt

“The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.”

Facts Stories Age Used Lost Nations Roles Written Century Changed Poet Mountain Rivers Entertainment Used To Be Tribes Keepers Tamed Where We Came

Author:Malik Yusef

“Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.”

Mind Age Dies Courses Language Force Effort Written Originals Inspired Immortal Relative Justification Verses Boast Imaginative Irrevocable Hieroglyphics

Book:The Life of Reason

Source: The Life of Reason

“Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.”

Writing Stills Age Novel Written Difficulty Paragraph

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.”

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Book:Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“The twenty-first century will be a time of awakening, of meeting the creator within. Many beings will experience oneness with God and with all life. This will be the beginning of the golden age of the new human, of which it has been written; the time of the universal human, which has been eloquently described by those with deep insight among you.”

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Book:Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.”

Thinking Men Kind Feelings Age Strong Written Stones Strong Feeling Written In Stone

Author:Nico Tortorella

“When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.”

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Book:Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography

Source: Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography

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