Dad Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will…

— Marie Lu

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

— Chad Harbach

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write…

— Jodi Picoult

I think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so she pulled…

— Kim Smith

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

Teach the writer, not the writing.

— Lucy Calkins

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I…

— Maeve Binchy

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

— Anonymous