Rainbow Rowell Quotes

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

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.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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

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.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.