Age Quote by Gore Vidal

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that…

— Carol Windley

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 first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a…

— Harry Turtledove

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

— Michael Koryta

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

— Manju Kapur

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

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

— David Sedaris

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

— J. K. Rowling

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

— Danielle Steel