Believe Quote by Pearl S. Buck

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or…

— Laura Z. Hobson

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided…

— Dean Koontz

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what…

— Nina Bawden

Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still want that…

— Lynne Tillman

Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

— Richard Yates

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends…

— Charles Stross

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

— Flannery O'Connor

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

— Ian Mcewan