About Quote by Robert Gottlieb

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

— Sridevi

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law…

— Susan Orlean

My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I…

— Nick Tosches

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

— Michael Foot

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a…

— Caitlin Flanagan

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

— Brian Dennehy

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or…

— Andrea Barrett

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I…

— Gary Locke

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

— Giles Coren

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

— Anne Lamott

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