Annie Baker Quotes

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

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.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

When I was 20 I was like, 'I'm not a teenager anymore. I got this.' But when I look back I'm like, 'Oh no. Oh no. You did not.'