Age Quote by Sue Grafton

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

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 don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that…

— Nicholas Mosley

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second…

— Douglas Adams

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

— John Berger

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later, with my…

— Diamond Dallas Page

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people…

— Gene Wolfe