I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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 came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
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.