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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

— Kate Christensen

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

— Joe Meno

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

— Kevin J. Anderson

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.

— Philipp Meyer

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

— J. K. Rowling

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

— Kate Atkinson

My first book was the book that changed my life.

— Stephen Ambrose

✗Opposing Perspectives

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— David Sedaris

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Kent Haruf