Book Quote by Patti Smith

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five…

— Patti Smith

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

— Caroline B. Cooney

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single…

— Karrine Steffans

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

— Caitlin Moran

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

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

— Kent Haruf

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

— James A. Michener

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

— Caroline B. Cooney

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting