Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

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

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

Early convictions must give way to more mature ones.

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

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.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I became the kind of bishop in my sixties that I hated in my thirties.

I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young.

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

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

Yes, maturity in life brings maturity to the music I make.

What we see changes who we are.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

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

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