Achieving Quote by Stephen Gaghan

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

— Lloyd Alexander

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life.…

— Kyle Kinane

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

— Nick Flynn

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both…

— Derek Walcott

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me…

— Tess Gerritsen

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

— Joan Collins

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish…

— Chang-Rae Lee

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

— Christine Elise