Brewing Quote by John Mortimer

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I…

— Ernest Gaines

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

— Hisham Matar

“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that…

— Gary Webb

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.

— J.I.D

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I…

— Nick Tosches

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

— Paula Danziger

When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a…

— Doug Liman

“My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never…

— Helen Falconer

Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer,…

— Walter Huston

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

— Daniel Day-Lewis