Behind Quote by John Carter Cash

When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember…

— Rhianna Pratchett

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on to, and…

— Shannon Lee

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

— Lloyd Alexander

My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced…

— Stephen Gaghan

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 father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups…

— Paul Theroux

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

— David Quammen

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

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

— Sadie Jones

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian…

— James Rollins

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