Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.