Firsts Quote by Sue Grafton

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

— Marie Lu

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

— Jesmyn Ward

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

— Kent Haruf

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

— Kent Haruf

I've been writing since I was really young.

— Uzodinma Iweala

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

— David Sedaris

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

— Neil Gaiman

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

— Richard North Patterson

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

— Joseph Brodsky

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman