“I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. ...” — Rick Yancey Quote

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.

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 really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me.

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

I was something of a late bloomer.

I was definitely a late bloomer.

I've always been what they call a late bloomer.

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

I am a late bloomer!