Again Quote by Neil Cross

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out…

— Michael Koryta

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York!…

— Ernest Gaines

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

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

— David Sedaris

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

— Danielle Steel

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

— Charli XCX

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

— Manju Kapur

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a…

— Harry Turtledove