Blank Quote by Zoya Akhtar

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

— Marc Guggenheim

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

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

— Jesmyn Ward

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

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

— David Sedaris

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

— Kent Haruf

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

— Danielle Steel

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

— Naomi Alderman

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton

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

— John Boyne