Amanda Shires Quotes

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

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

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.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

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

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

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.

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

I think you get better as you get older.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

I've matured, I understand the game much more, which can be natural as you grow up.

I've tried to be more mature and my mindset is a lot different now.

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

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.

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.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

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.

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

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

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

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

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.