Book Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

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 didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Jenny Han

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

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

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

— Diana Gabaldon

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

— Danielle Steel

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

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho