Education Quote by Viola Davis

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.

— Craig T. Nelson

I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did…

— Denzel Washington

Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out…

— Michael Connelly

When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember…

— Rhianna Pratchett

My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. My mom raised the…

— Peter Heller

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

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but…

— Jane Birkin

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

— A. Scott Berg

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

The writer in my dad is someone whom I've been inspired greatly by since my childhood.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but…

— Jack Vance

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies