Age Quote by Amor Towles

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to…

— Donald E. Westlake

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think…

— Jess Walter

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

— William Gibson

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

— Tom Robbins

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

— Helen Dunmore

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine…

— Sherwood Anderson

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

— John Darnielle

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld