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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an 'old' young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.