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"I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk."
Work
"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation."
Death
"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications."
Nation
"It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times."
Change
"There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters."
Life
"When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books."
Books
"Every writer has to find their own way into writing."
Creativity
"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been."
Life
"I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing."
Reading
"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people."
Experience
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