I think I'm only considered a crime writer in Britain. I mean Dostoyevsky could be seen as a crime writer because of Crime and Punishment . When I was younger I would read all the newest novelists as they were announced and pronounced as the great new thing. You've achieved a great deal in the last few decades. You can never make up for lost time.
Time is gone.
You appreciate life more but you can never make up for anything. A day gone is a day gone.