30th birthday Quote by James Rollins

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

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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 wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

— Alistair Maclean

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

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

— David Sedaris

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done…

— Kate DiCamillo

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

— Caitlin Moran

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

“Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.”

— Austin Kleon