Anything Quote by Edmund White

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a…

— Edward Albee

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

— Caitlin Moran

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

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

— Grace Paley

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five…

— Patti Smith

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

Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

— Hallie Ephron

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

— Caroline B. Cooney