Coal Quote by Owen King

I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read.

— Homer Hickam

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

I write about families. That is who we are.

— Per Petterson

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them…

— Carl Reiner

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

— Gabriella Wilson

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

— David Sedaris

I write a lot about my parents, and how they met. I talk about my parents, and how they got married right out of…

— Sara Evans

I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.

— Neal Brennan

I write about personal experiences.

— Ananya Birla

My father and brothers were coal miners.

— Merle Travis

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a…

— Tom Wolfe