Banking Quote by Philipp Meyer

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out…

— Michael Koryta

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

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

— Richard North Patterson

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

— Danielle Steel

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin

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

— Kent Haruf

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

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 have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan