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

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

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

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.