Being Quote by Brandi Glanville

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so,…

— Sophie Kinsella

My first book was the book that changed my life.

— Stephen Ambrose

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

— Sara Zarr

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from…

— Adam Silvera

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

— Sara Paretsky

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

— Marilynne Robinson

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to…

— Marlon James

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

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