Dad Quote by Lemony Snicket

“Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read it.…

— Marisha Pessl

“If you want to be heard, become a dentist.”

— Neel Burton

“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of…

— Alysia Abbott

“Writing is like having your teeth extracted. It only hurts while you're doing it.”

— Jason Blacker

“Be your own dentist!”

— Rube Goldberg

“What I want my father's writing to keep teaching us is that at the table of writing, everyone is welcome. No voice without all…

— Kim Stafford

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

— Lasse Hallstrom

“When Dad was a kid, he wanted to be a lumberjack, but unfortunately he'd been cursed with the build of an accountant and the…

— Kieran Scott

“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Dear slut, when the dentist said,

— Avery McKinney

It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going…

— Jenny Mollen

“Does this dental fantasy of yours take place in, like, 1973?”

— Rainbow Rowell