Age Quote by Joanna Coles

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

— David Quammen

I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a…

— Daniel Handler

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave…

— Linda Sue Park

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in…

— Daniel Handler

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen

Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places.

— Steven Rinella

I wrote a lot as a child. I had an insane imagination.

— Emma Corrin

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too…

— Nick Earls