Dad Quote by Sally Hawkins

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave…

— Linda Sue Park

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had…

— Geraldine Brooks

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of…

— Anne Lamott

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they…

— Paula Fox

I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was…

— Abbi Jacobson

My mom was a teacher and my dad owned a small printing press where we printed visiting cards.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great…

— Anonymous

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the…

— Ian Rankin

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

— Bat for Lashes

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me…

— Dick Bruna

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on to, and…

— Shannon Lee

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address…

— Kiran Desai