Book Quote by John Burnside

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent…

— Marisha Pessl

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

— Pat Conroy

One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he…

— Anthony Browne

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel

My dad reads everything about me.

— Dries Mertens

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because…

— Justin Halpern

I send my father everything I write.

— Chad Michael Murray

Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe…

— Carrie Fisher

“You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.”

— M. Kirin

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just…

— Joss Whedon

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write…

— Billy Crystal