Adults Quote by Michael Scott

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

— Sara Zarr

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

— Tom Robbins

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

— Kent Haruf

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

— David Sedaris

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

— Caroline B. Cooney

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

— Kent Haruf