After Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco…

— Andrew Lam

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for…

— Ayobami Adebayo

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and…

— Renee Watson

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

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

— Kent Haruf

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

— Kent Haruf

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet