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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life.…

— Kyle Kinane

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

— Gwen Stefani

My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity…

— Karl Iagnemma

I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.

— Rose Byrne

My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.

— Yung Lean

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish…

— Chang-Rae Lee

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

— Lloyd Alexander

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

— Chad Harbach

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart