Appreciative Quote by Jo Beverley

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin

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

— Lloyd Alexander

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that…

— Walter Mosley

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

— Sara Paretsky

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single…

— Karrine Steffans

It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be…

— Rainbow Rowell

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

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