Richard K. Morgan Quotes

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

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.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.

On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

The more you live, the better writer you are.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.