I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first…

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

— Limahl

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York!…

— Ernest Gaines

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

— Jonathan Franzen

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously,…

— Cyndi Lauper

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

— Marie Lu

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

— Stephen King

When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if…

— Ray Bradbury

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

— Fred Saberhagen

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

— Howard Gordon

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I…

— Jonathan Dee

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do…

— Patricia MacLachlan

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with…

— George Stephen

Writing is something I take very seriously.

— Melody Gardot

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf