Adult Quote by Julia Glass

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

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 first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a…

— Harry Turtledove

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 was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my…

— Jenny Han

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else.…

— Paul Auster

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton