Jonathan Galassi Quotes

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.

Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

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

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.

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

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

I'd never been published when I was young.

I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.

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

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.

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

When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.