I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book…

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second…

— Len Deighton

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

— Limahl

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about…

— Richard Helms

I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.

— Eddie Rabbitt

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I…

— Joe R. Lansdale

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I…

— S. E. Hinton

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

— Greg Behrendt

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to realize over…

— Trevor Noah

Wrote the book on pain.

— Shinedown

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life.…

— Anne Roiphe