About Quote by Cary Fukunaga

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

— Caitlin Moran

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

— Charles Stross

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever

“You're guaranteed to be lucky several times in your life-it's what you do with it. Young writers spend all their time worrying, in a…

— Steven Moffat

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged…

— Eugene Ionesco

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat…

— Karl Marlantes

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for…

— Hilary Duff

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho