Always Quote by Diana Gabaldon

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

— Claire Tomalin

I was 35 when I started writing Shadow and Bone,' and my only goal was to finish a book because I had never managed…

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Kent Haruf

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Kent Haruf

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

— Sara Paretsky

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

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

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua