I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
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 was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
I've been keeping journals since I was 13.