Birth Quote by Jackson Browne

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

— Mary Karr

Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed of a…

— Rumaan Alam

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

— Frank Darabont

The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy…

— Daryl Gregory

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing…

— Tommy Rettig

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer.…

— Pearl S. Buck

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

— Marguerite Young

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by…

— Hugh Hefner

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise,…

— Will Allison

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough…

— Jonathan W. Galassi