Book Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

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

— 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 labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

— Beverly Cleary

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

— Robert J. Sawyer

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and…

— Lisa Jewell

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit…

— William Hazlitt

Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich…

— John Updike

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

— John Berger