Academic Quote by Cheryl Mendelson

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single…

— Karrine Steffans

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

— Kent Haruf

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

— James A. Michener

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

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

— Kent Haruf

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish…

— J. K. Rowling

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the…

— Maya Angelou

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

— Tom Robbins

I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up.…

— Marilyn Hacker

I'd never been published when I was young.

— Jack Vance