“It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.”

“There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

“Very early in my life it was too late.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Very early in my life it was already too late.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Half my life is an act of revision.”

John Irving (1942) American novelist and screenwriter

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

“you are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
it's own secret”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer