Baby Quote by Kate Atkinson

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma

When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually…

— Jennifer Egan

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it.…

— Elif Batuman

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things…

— Jennifer Weiner

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it…

— Sandra Cisneros

In terms of moments that pushed me toward becoming a writer... My parents, my wife, and my English teacher in the 8th grade were…

— Blake Crouch

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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 felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and…

— Common