Book Quote by Peter Carey

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't…

— Lucy Corin

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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 didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— James A. Michener

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

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

— Kent Haruf

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane

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

— Jenny Han