Age Quote by Ernest Hemingway

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

— Jesmyn Ward

I've been writing since I was really young.

— Uzodinma Iweala

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon

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

— Jenny Han

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.

— Doris Lessing

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I've been writing since I was 12 years old.

— Jonas Blue

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

— Naomi Alderman