I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie! ’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had. Samuel Beckett
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The writer’s best chance is to keep on writing. Age is no guarantee of quality. You can be wrong about that too. You can think that age will make your writing better, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you are right. But it is the best chance you have.

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