The Fear of God is Utmost
…11The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd. 12But beyond these, my son, be warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body. 13When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.…
I compiled a list of my favorite writers and their age when they first published their debut book, i.e., novel, memoir, or first collection of short stories. Some made me say, “I figured!” (like Haruki Murakami, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Italo Calvino). Others made me feel like even though the clock is ticking, I’m still okay. =)
- Junot Diaz – 29
- Thomas Pynchon – 26
- Margaret Atwood – 30
- John Barth – 27
- Ayn Rand – 29
- Paul Auster – 35
- Amy Tan – 37
- Maxine Hong Kingston – 36
- Ernest Hemingway – 27
- Haruki Murakami – 21 (but then he went on a one decade hiatus)
- Franz Kafka – 42 (but he wrote Metamorphosis when he was 32 and published his first short story at 21)
- James Joyce – 49
- Virginia Woolf – 33
- John Steinback – 27
- Ha Jin – 40
- David Sedaris – 38
- Kazuo Ishiguro –…
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