Adult life Quote by PJ Harvey

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a…

— Sophie Kinsella

I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the…

— Rebecca Serle

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

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

— Kent Haruf

I've been writing since I came to Nashville when I was 17. I've been blessed to have written with so many of the biggest…

— RaeLynn

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

Right when I moved to L.A., I started writing. I wrote some screenplay. I'm sure it's terrible. But I wrote a screenplay by myself.…

— Dan Schneider

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex...…

— Tom Waits

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

— Sandra Brown