Desk Quote by Tom Wolfe

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

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

— Giles Coren

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 was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

— Sadie Jones

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

I've always considered myself a writer.

— Patti Smith

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home…

— Janet Evanovich

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV…

— Michael Scott

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