Death Quote by Philip Schultz

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his…

— Edward Hirsch

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my…

— Mark Leyner

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they…

— Mariah Carey

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

— David Mixner

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

— Kevin Powers

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best…

— Roger Waters

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a…

— Yance Ford

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

— Art Spiegelman

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me…

— Kate DiCamillo

My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business,…

— Washington Irving