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

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

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

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

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

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.