Father Quote by Michael Tolkin

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

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a…

— Caitlin Flanagan

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as…

— Nick Flynn

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

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

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

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

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

— Anne Lamott

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it…

— Sandra Cisneros