Did Quote by Paul Theroux

Growing up, our household felt unusual because none of my friends' parents had creative jobs like mine did: my dad was an artist, illustrator…

— Rebecca Front

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family…

— Amy Bloom

As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That meant that…

— Kameron Hurley

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

— Crystal Hana Kim

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen.…

— Samantha Hunt

I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at…

— Marge Piercy

I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a…

— Lucinda Williams

On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did for a…

— Kate DiCamillo

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

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

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

— John Carter Cash