Accused Quote by Thomas Steinbeck

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory…

— Jonathan Dee

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

— Paula Danziger

I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing. It became,…

— John Grisham

I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be…

— Tamora Pierce

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

— William Butler Yeats

When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me…

— John Mortimer

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

— Steven Cojocaru

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old…

— Brian Jacques

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi