Career Quote by John Lanchester

When 'If God Was a Banker' became a success, it changed my entire perspective. I wanted to write more and wanted to be lot…

— Ravi Subramanian

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

— Yoko Ono

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer…

— Kevin J. Anderson

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

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

— Amish Tripathi

“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.”

— Sara Sheridan

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as…

— Nick Flynn

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because…

— Richard Rodriguez

My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.

— John Layfield

Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in…

— Amor Towles

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

— Dick Bruna

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan