Book Quote by Jonathan Franzen

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

— Neil Gaiman

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

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

— David Sedaris

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

— Steven Cojocaru

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

— Danielle Steel

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out…

— Michael Koryta

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

— Al Purdy

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

— Richard North Patterson

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