Dad Quote by Shakira

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

— Wamiqa Gabbi

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

— Drake

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 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

I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a…

— B. J. Novak

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

— Anne Lamott

I always wanted to be a writer.

— Jung Chang

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me…

— Judith Viorst

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because…

— Richard Rodriguez