Ability Quote by Cheryl Strayed

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

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

— Cynthia Weil

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you…

— Patrick Modiano

Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about what seems…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to…

— James A. Michener

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

— Joanna Trollope

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to…

— Avi

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two…

— Paul Di Filippo

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is…

— Diane Ackerman

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious…

— Joyce Carol Oates