Adolescence Quote by Ian Mcewan

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

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep…

— V. S. Naipaul

I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially…

— Natsuo Kirino

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on,…

— Paul Auster

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on…

— Toni Morrison

I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would…

— Alice Munro

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me…

— Julie Klassen

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that…

— Greg Mottola

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

— Jesmyn Ward