Richard K. Morgan Quotes

The more you live, the better writer you are.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.