Good news about our aging candidates' minds--they got potential! By the way, only some, by no

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3. Great! Malcolm Cowley wrote a terrific book "The View from 80," which I read in my thirties. He

advised that older people write their stories.

I once heard at a writer’s conference that too many young people were rushing to publish who didn’t have enough life experience to have enough to say.

Diana Athill, a literary editor and novelist, won the coveted Costa award at 90. The list of folks doing some of their most significant writing after 65 is long.

You might have to wait awhile, but a rocking chair seems like a great place to dream up a few
books.

By the way, me too. I want to write when I grow up and get the time to mine some journals.

Verbal skill is long-lived.