Book Quote by Elie Wiesel

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

— Rick Reilly

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic -…

— Bruce Feiler

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

— James A. Michener

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.'…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive…

— Maeve Binchy

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark.

— Gillian Flynn

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and…

— Jodi Picoult

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

— Dinaw Mengestu