Firsts Quote by Sara Paretsky

I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it…

— Joanna Coles

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

— Tom Robbins

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

— Sara Zarr

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

— Philip K. Dick

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

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 started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

— Jean Giraud

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

— Candace Bushnell

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel