Being a father Quote by Chris Cleave Download Open image “I'm a much better writer for being a father.” — Chris Cleave ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being a father Father Parenting Writing
I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel,… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience. — Mike Oldfield Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen-… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way the life… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband,… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand of the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being a father… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife. — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
