Bless Quote by Nick Tosches

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because…

— Richard Rodriguez

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

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my…

— Shakira

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

— Salman Rushdie

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was…

— David Soul

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

— Giles Coren

People expected me to be creative and true to myself. In that way, I follow my father's footsteps.

— Rohan Marley

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in…

— Tom Hardy

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

— Alex Grey

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

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life.

— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

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