Book Quote by Orhan Pamuk

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them…

— Sigrid Undset

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

— Jenny Han

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I…

— Amor Towles

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright