About Quote by Patrick White

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

— Peter Heller

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

— Natalie Dormer

I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what…

— Norman Maclean

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

— David Sedaris

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

— Norman Maclean

“Each life lived eventually became a book. How a single letter becomes a word, becomes a sentence, becomes a paragraph, before finally becoming a…

— Betta Ferrendelli

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

— Malcolm Gladwell