Book Quote by Tony Dungy

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Diana Gabaldon

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

— Kent Haruf

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen…

— David Sedaris

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was…

— Chrissy Costanza

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates