Become Quote by Hisham Matar

I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of…

— Meg Cabot

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

— Douglas Coupland

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

— Richard Flanagan

When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me…

— John Mortimer

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

— Chris Cleave

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and…

— Anonymous

I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.

— Alex Rodriguez

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful…

— Michael Tolkin

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on…

— Giles Coren