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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.

— Cynthia Voigt

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✓Similar Perspectives

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

— Eula Biss

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

— Ron Rash

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

— Kent Haruf

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

— Dan DeCarlo

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

— Amiri Baraka

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

— Mary MacLane

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

— Kiran Desai

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

— Isobelle Carmody