Book Quote by Jonathan Meades

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

— Kent Haruf

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

— Kent Haruf

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

— A. S. Byatt

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Jenny Han

I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

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 feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on…

— Toni Morrison

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books…

— Jane Goldman

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to…

— Donald E. Westlake