Always Quote by Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Anne Lamott

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me…

— Judith Viorst

My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me…

— Ruby Dee

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

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

— C. K. Williams

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

— Philip Levine

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

— Max Lucado

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became…

— Natasha Trethewey

My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender…

— Shabana Azmi