Book Quote by Edward Albee

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would…

— Edward Albee

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

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

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out…

— Michael Koryta

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking…

— Israel Horovitz

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted…

— Annie Baker

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote…

— Zoe Kazan

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought,…

— Francis Ford Coppola