Father Quote by Stephen Humphrey Bogart

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

— Anne Waldman

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers…

— Joss Whedon

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

— Anne Lamott

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on…

— Giles Coren

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

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful…

— Michael Tolkin

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 always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

— Mia Farrow

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and…

— Anonymous

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as…

— Nick Flynn