I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.