Father Quote by Anne Lamott

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

— Mia Farrow

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life…

— Pankaj Mishra

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a…

— Caitlin Flanagan

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

— Tess Gerritsen

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

— Michael Foot

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers…

— Alexandra Adornetto

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

— Jennie Garth

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

— Natasha Trethewey

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

— Jacqueline Woodson