Ability Quote by Rita Mae Brown

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

— Grace Paley

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

— Rita Mae Brown

Films gave me name, fame and money. But my heart always yearned for literature.

— Tanikella Bharani

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 did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

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

— Diana Gabaldon

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua