Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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 wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.
I've been writing since I was 19.