Accused Quote by Thomas Steinbeck

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

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

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

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

— Steven Cojocaru

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

— Terrell Owens

In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started…

— Markus Zusak

My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced…

— Stephen Gaghan

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

— Christine Keeler

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

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Paula Danziger

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller