Age Quote by Howard Jacobson

I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side…

— Gary Lineker

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and…

— Jonathan Franzen

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would…

— Albert Brooks

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that…

— Ally Carter

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day;…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and…

— Mary Ruefle

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

— Colm Toibin

I'm still writing in my old age. And still loving it. It fills my days. Writing is my salvation. I just get up in…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by…

— Paul Theroux

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for…

— Stephen King

I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day project that…

— Sarah MacLean