"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Age, Burden, Memories, Old

"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

Annie Dillard, American Author

Age, English, Speech

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Age, Care, Importance

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Age, Old, Youth

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Dream, Success, Leadership

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

John Burroughs, American Author

Age, Light, Old

"Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection."

Bill Mumy, American Actor

Age, Books, Buying, Country

"From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice."

Bill Mumy, American Actor

Age, Being, Chance, Choice

"It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media."

Bill Mumy, American Actor

Age, Money, Work, Buying

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Nation

"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."

Fact

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

Experience

"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."

Art

"In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever."

Gift

"Prayers said by good people are always good prayers."

Blessing

"It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain."

Aesthetics

"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."

Quality