I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.