Autobiography Quote by Mia Farrow

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

— Giles Coren

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

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 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

I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a…

— B. J. Novak

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

— Shaun King

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I…

— Zadie Smith

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my…

— Angela Yee