Book Quote by Jennifer Weiner

It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example,…

— Elizabeth Berg

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a…

— Kate DiCamillo

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and…

— Lisa Jewell

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things…

— Jeff Kinney

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

My first book was the book that changed my life.

— Stephen Ambrose

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The wedding fell…

— Stephanie Coontz

Although I started writing children's books before I had kids, my approach changed after I became a dad.

— Tom Fletcher