Book Quote by Caitlin Moran

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

— Pam Gems

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

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

— Michael Koryta

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for…

— Ayobami Adebayo

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a…

— Edward Albee

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

— Taiye Selasi

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

— Jonathan Franzen