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

— Malcolm Gladwell

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out…

— Michael Koryta

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

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

— Kent Haruf

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

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

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the…

— Jan Karon

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book…

— Joan Collins

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

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler