House Quote by Eavan Boland

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

— Rita Mae Brown

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the…

— Kevin Barry

I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always…

— Melvyn Bragg

A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met her aged…

— Caroline Lucas

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

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

— Sara Paretsky

In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing fiction, at…

— Kim Brooks

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a…

— Kate DiCamillo

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a…

— Julia Glass