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" I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time. "

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" Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books. "

Rick Yancey

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Book

Feel

" I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s. "

" I've always been a late bloomer, so I never feel like, 'Oh, I'm gettin' older; I guess everything is gonna stop.' I'm the opposite: 'Oh, I'm just getting started.' "

Megan Mullally

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Never

" I'm a late bloomer. "

" One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. "

" My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad. "

" Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience. "

" I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all. "

" I was definitely a late bloomer. "

" 'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS. "

" I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come into my own until very late. I feel that's true in cinema, too. I didn't even start 'Metropolitan' until I was 37. "

" The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading. "

" I was a late bloomer, and that was my issue growing up. "

" I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer. "

" I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that. "

Mike Birbiglia

Know

Late

" I'm a late bloomer in music. "

" I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer. "

" One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop. "

" Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact. "

" My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure. "

" I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript? "

" I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point. "

" I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama. "

" The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us. "

Rick Yancey

Attack

Imagined

" When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. "

Rick Yancey

Primitive

Prevails

" I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive. "

Arija Bareikis

Naive

Late Bloomer

" I'm a late bloomer. "

" I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade. "

Paul Pierce

Always

Late

" Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure. "

" Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me. "

Ron Perlman

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Started