"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."

Age, Discipline, Old, Wrestling

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"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

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"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

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"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

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"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

Family

"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."

Reason

"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."

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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

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"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."

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"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."

Sympathy

"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."

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"I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography."

Imagination

"Half my life is an act of revision."

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"Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is."

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