Short Quote by Kanika Dhillon

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

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

— Tom Robbins

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

— Cary Fukunaga

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

— Kelley Armstrong

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write…

— Ruskin Bond

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the…

— Francine Rivers

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories,…

— Amor Towles

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

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 only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo