Old Quote by Eric Carmen

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

— Ellen Goodman

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

— Neil Gaiman

Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.

— Pooja Bhatt

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen…

— David Sedaris

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force…

— David Sedaris

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

— Tony Parsons

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

— Penelope Lively

I've been writing forever, 20 years.

— Mat Johnson

My twenties were a write-off.

— Sarah Lancashire