Being Quote by James Burrows

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV…

— Michael Scott

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 was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

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

— Anne M. Mulcahy

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

— Drake

I think my dad's influence on me as a writer, or just a creative thinker, is, more than anything, that I grew up with…

— Gracie Abrams

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

— Michael Foot

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

— Sadie Jones

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were…

— Pamela Stephenson

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 mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter…

— Michael Easton