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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.
I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.