Always Quote by Judith Viorst

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

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

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

— Sara Paretsky

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

— Daniel Berrigan

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

— Penelope Lively

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

— James A. Michener

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— David Sedaris