Parenting Quote by Dick Bruna

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

— Dick Bruna

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

— Giles Coren

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of…

— Anne Lamott

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address…

— Kiran Desai

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

— Sadie Jones

My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I…

— Nick Tosches

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a…

— Tom Wolfe

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

— Noah Hathaway

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was…

— Anne M. Mulcahy