Age Quote by Alice Munro

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what…

— Nina Bawden

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up…

— James Rollins

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

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Kent Haruf

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen…

— David Sedaris

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

— Richard Yates