In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.
I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.
I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.
A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.
Old friends are best.