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

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

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

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

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

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

I'd never been published when I was young.