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Originally Posted by pwalker8
A lot of authors do seem to hit a point where their best works are behind them. I suspect that is part of the reason that so many big name authors use co-authors once they reach a certain age. I don't know that I would call it coasting, but eventually people just don't seem to have the drive and energy they had when they were younger.
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I don't know that it's just drive and energy either. A lot of it might be the way the author sees the world. A person born in 1935 won't see the world in quite the way that someone born in 1965 will see it. And time marches on forward always. So the perception of the way the world is (or should be) may be set in the brain. For example an author in 1928 wouldn't have their hero pulling out a portable phone most likely, but today it would be expected that the hero would. And readers would wonder why he didn't (unless it's something like historical fiction).