Approval Quote by Paul Theroux

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

— Drake

I think my dad's influence on me as a writer, or just a creative thinker, is, more than anything, that I grew up with…

— Gracie Abrams

My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a…

— Louise Erdrich

As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're…

— Natasha Trethewey

The writer in my dad is someone whom I've been inspired greatly by since my childhood.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

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

— Anne Lamott

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent…

— Marisha Pessl

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 dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on…

— Giles Coren

I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was…

— Edmund White

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and…

— Anonymous

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel,…

— Nick Flynn