Richard K. Morgan Quotes

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

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

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

As you grow older, you start looking at the bigger picture. You don't look at only yourself.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

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.