Accomplish Quote by Akhil Sharma

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened…

— Nikki Grimes

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first…

— Carl Sandburg

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

— Robert Motherwell