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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.