I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living…

“I conducted an off-site consisting of 25 parents in the Seattle area with an income of $200K+ and whose children are entering kindergarten. The…

— Maria Semple

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan,…

— Anne Waldman

I grew up - my dad, every time I was with my dad, he was always - not always, but he wrote. He's a…

— Ad-Rock

When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year…

— Beau Biden

I wrote a letter to my Dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But…

— Mitch Hedberg

“That evening I was so sad that I didn't know what to do. It was completely impossible to get to sleep. Dad must have…

— Maria Parr

I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a…

— Lucinda Williams

“My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never…

— Helen Falconer

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

— Ed Miliband

There's this script that my dad wrote that portrays my brother's life, and I don't want to bore you with the details, but there's…

— Steve Howey

My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad wrote.

— John Carter Cash

The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage…

— Christopher Titus

I mean, my wife is always like - I don't write lyrics. So I couldn't, like, really technically write a song for anyone. I…

— Mark Ronson

When domestic violence was often a dark secret, Dad wrote the Violence Against Women Act, which gave countless women support, protection and a new…

— Beau Biden

My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.

— Rachel Trachtenburg