Being honest Quote by Jennifer Weiner

At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.

— Pooja Bhatt

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and…

— Julia Glass

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

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

— Richard Yates

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't…

— Jennifer Egan

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 thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

Enough time had passed that I was ready to write the book Hungry. Was it absolutely difficult? Completely. I had to go back and…

— Crystal Renn

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going…

— Samuel R. Delany

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance