Brilliant Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just…

— Mark Haddon

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

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

— John Boyne

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I…

— Mark Haddon

Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

— Anne McCaffrey

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to…

— Angie Thomas

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

— Joanna Trollope