Began Quote by Kent Haruf Download Open image “I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.” — Kent Haruf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Began Book Books First Publish Seriously Until Writing
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
“quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.” — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.” — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“Alene looked out toward the fading sky. There was only a little light remaining. It would turn nighttime now and soon they would return… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“And so we know the satisfaction of hate. We know the sweet joy of revenge. How it feels good to get even. Oh, that was a nice idea Jesus had. That was a pretty notion, but you can't love people who do evil. It's neither sensible or practical. It's not wise to the world to love people who do such… — Kent Haruf Copy Share
In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves… — Kent Haruf Copy Share
“The evening wasn’t cold yet... But the air was turning sharp, with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air.” — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism'… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera. — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
