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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

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

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

I'd never been published when I was young.

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 didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.