Book Quote by Leon Uris

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

I graduated from college December of 2017 and looking ahead and thinking about potentially starting a book, I just kept getting hung up before…

— Kyle Carpenter

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories,…

— Michael Winter

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and…

— Charlaine Harris

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or…

— Molly Ringwald