I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
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.
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
I wrote my first play when I was eight.
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.