Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

As you grow older, you change.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

One has to evolve with age, and that's what I am doing.

What applies when we're younger maybe doesn't so much when we get a little bit older.

I've seen that most people change as they get older.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

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.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

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

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.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

One should mature over 20 years.

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

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

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

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

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.