Early 20s Quote by Carl Sandburg

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then,…

— Jane Gardam

I remember when I was 15 or 16 years old, I couldn't imagine what life would be like past the age of 30, just…

— Black Thought

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40…

— Jennifer Lopez

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

— Pauly Shore

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made…

— Marian Keyes

My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.

— Minnie Driver

As I was about to turn 40, I realised it wasn't going to be possible to carry on being in my 30s. And that…

— Simon Amstell

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

— Lily Allen

When I turned 30, I knew my life was at a crossroads. It was either over, or I was going to restart.

— Glenn Beck