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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

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

— John Boyne

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

— Kent Haruf

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

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

— Kent Haruf

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

— Kelsea Ballerini

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

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

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that…

— Naguib Mahfouz