Acquire Quote by Charles Stross

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still want that…

— Lynne Tillman

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen…

— David Sedaris

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on…

— Toni Morrison

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting…

— Stephen King

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

— Richard North Patterson

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures…

— William Boyd