Classes Quote by Kyle Kinane

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

— Christine Elise

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish…

— Chang-Rae Lee

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

— Lloyd Alexander

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library.…

— Sandra Cisneros

When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school brought me…

— Avi

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both…

— Derek Walcott

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and…

— Renee Watson

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

— Mia Farrow

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands…

— Ali Liebegott

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart