After Quote by Sophie Kinsella

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

— Jenny Han

I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects,…

— Chris Pavone

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

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 sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a…

— Chad Harbach

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

— Kent Haruf

When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect…

— Peter Heller

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

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

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

— Kent Haruf

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang