About Quote by Candace Bushnell

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories,…

— Amor Towles

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

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

— Helen Dunmore

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea…

— Veena Sud

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

— Natsuo Kirino

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 thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments…

— Sloane Crosley

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock