“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die.”
Source: Beauty and Sadness
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Yasunari Kawabata 44
Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner 1899–1972Related quotes

“You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?”
Source: City of Ashes
Henri Peyre, at Yale, as quoted in Graham, Garrett, The Writer's Voice: Conversations with Contemporary Writers (1973), p. 272

“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”
Interviewed in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday, December 1976, as quoted in Newsweek Vol. 88, p. 157
1970s
"Perfect Knowledge in Final Things" (p. 108)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)