“People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.” PeopleMenGivingWritingI CanLeftBreakDadGive MeMy Dad Author:Jennifer Weiner
“My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.” PeopleWritingMatterFourFeetDadNo Matter WhatMy DadDo It Yourself Author:Tiger Woods
“As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.” WritingChildrenStoriesHouseSawsPiecesDadEuropeMumSydney Author:Markus Zusak
“The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.” WritingLittlesDifferentReasonBigsKidsFeltSecretHugeDadBeatenLittle KidSexuallySan Diego Author:Dorianne Laux
“I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.” WritingMightKidsMotherFeetDangerMomDadHusbandDaughterCrisisManagersSoccerFundConspiracyRescueThrillersAbout FamilyCover UpsSidelinesStraight UpHedge FundSoccer Mom Author:Andrew Gross
“Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.” WritingLongStrongCommunityHeardDadLong TimeOriginalsFolksContemporaryGoodbyeTunesWeber Author:Christopher Anderson
“My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.” MenWorldWritingDadMy DadMissionsBe A Man Author:Kenna
“I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, "Halloween isn't supposed to be happy, dad, it's supposed to be dark. " No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household!” WayWritingSaidKidsDarkDadDaughterSupposed To BeMy DaughterHouseholdHalloweenTwistedPumpkinOffbeatDark Twisted Author:Nikki Sixx
“I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.” WritingWellsStoriesMightTaughtDadKillingWorking ItGoing To WorkPuppy Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.” KnowsWritingHumorFunnyNumbersDadLettersMy DadCommunicateLetter Writing Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.” WorldNeedsWritingSaidMy OwnCompanyNiceDadLonelyMy DadContrastMe AloneLonerTime Of NeedAlone TimeSociabilityMy Own WorldI Need Time Author:Alan Titchmarsh
“One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.” GivingWritingHas BeensI CanJoyFatherReaderDadGive MeFortuneMy DadLovelyWriting LifeGood Fortune Author:Andre Dubus
“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 we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.” WritingKindStillsReadingSawsSpecialMomDadTenMy DadMy FavoriteFifteenDivorced Author:Andre Dubus
“My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.” WritingAcceptingInfluenceDadGayMy DadParadoxAmbiguityUps & DownsWeirdnessVery PositivePositive Influence Author:Mike Mills
“I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.” WritingSleepCreativeCarPoetGrewDadGrew UpCatWindowMy DadNovelistsHighwaysCreative WritingWrecksSleeping InApprenticeshipCar Wreck Author:Lucinda Williams
“I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part.” WritingStillsRememberGuyNiceDadTestsMy DadSatWheelsDriversLapReally NiceExamBrake Author:Garry Shandling
“I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.” WritingYearsLittlesRememberSportsWaitingMorningSunGrowing UpGrowingDadPagesSpringBaseballMy DadNewspapersCraftsPostsArticlesAfternoonBackyardsColoradoDenverPlaying Baseball Author:Pat Forde
“You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.” KnowsWayWritingTryingBookTogetherSidesMastersDadMy FriendsLaborMy DadOpeningSomething BetterAlways TryingPerfectionist Author:Jim Nantz
“The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick.” WayWritingCoursesDadWindowNotesMy DadTiesBricks Author:Christopher Titus
“I'm most proud of our son, having suffered several miscarriages before having him. As for the next mountain, it takes so much to maintain what's already going on that I don't have time to think about it. But I want some more seasons of the TV show, I'd like to write another book, and eventually, I'd like to retire and take vacations with my husband like my mom and dad do.” ThinkingWantWritingBookShowsNextSonTvsMomProudDadHusbandMountainSeasonsMy MomMy HusbandRetiringVacationTv ShowsTime To ThinkMom And DadMiscarriage Author:Wendy Williams
“Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.” ThinkingWritingSongWonderDadMy Dad Author:SonReal
“Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.” PeopleWritingStrongDadRootsGuitarMy DadSingersTexasSongwritersSinger SongwritersPlaying Guitar Author:Miranda Lambert
“My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.” WritingPlaySongStuffTaughtBrotherDadBandGuitarMy DadPianoGradesAcousticsOlder Brother Author:Conor Oberst
“I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.” PeopleWorldFeelsWritingTwoAbleDifficultMomDadMemoirEthicalDilemmaMom And DadCandorEthical Dilemmas Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“I mean, my wife is always like - I don't write lyrics. So I couldn't, like, really technically write a song for anyone. I could write a very nice instrumental. So she always sort of gives me a hard time because it's just such a ridiculously impossible standard to live up to, that your step-dad wrote that song for your mom.” GivingWritingMeanHardSongStepsNiceWifeImpossibleMomDadStandardsGive MeMy WifeHard TimesVery NiceYour MomStep Dad Author:Mark Ronson
“I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.” WantWritingKidsWantedDadLeavingMy DadAbandonedFailed Relationship Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.” WritingBookHomeWould BeWantedWaitingMemoriesDadStoresLawyerComicComing HomeComic BookLeatherBriefcases Author:Arvind Ethan David
“You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.” KnowsWritingBookSongGirlBoysFrontsMomDadComicComic BookYour MomMom And Dad Author:Scott McClanahan
“How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.” WritingParentMomDadMy DadMy MomNurseMechanic Author:Max Lucado
“I used to have to come home and write and then record work tapes of those new songs. So now I can do it all on the road and that has been a huge difference that has happened in 2016. It is the only way for me to really balance. There is a lot of overhead, but it's a big investment towards being a dad and a husband, which is ultimately my number one goal.” WayWritingHas BeensI CanHomeBigsUsedSongGoalCan DoDifferencesNumbersRecordsHappenedHugeBalanceDadHusbandInvestmentComing HomeTapeI Can Do ItOverheadNew SongsBeing A Dad Author:Granger Smith
“Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingDifferentEndsStoriesStageCarCryExampleKeysDadLosingJokesMy DadTricksUpsetDifferent WaysGirlfriendMy GirlfriendHaircutsCar KeysNew GirlfriendNew Haircut Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“If you're making yourself vulnerable in your writing, then they know where to hurt you, which is extra fun. I had to develop coping mechanisms on the fly, and slowly it got better, to the point where now I barely notice. I'm like an old, gnarly turtle now. The interaction with the troll who impersonated my dad made me start to understand who these people are, and I figured out, in a really profound way, that happy people don't do this. It's hard to feel afraid of someone when you pity them.” PeopleWritingFunHurtDadProfoundMy DadPityVulnerableExtrasCopingHappy PeopleTroll Author:Lindy West
“I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.” WritingTeacherDadMy DadBiology Author:Darren Aronofsky
“Look, if somebody said tomorrow, "We're making a Lethal Weapon formula movie, but it's incredibly well-written and for two women," I'm not going to say, "Oh, forget it, it's formula." I got an idea the other day, that somebody should write a typical formula movie, a Lethal Weapon, and make it with me and my dad. It could be all father-and-daughter capers. But I'd want someone really weird to direct it.” WritingForgetDadTomorrowDirectMy DadForget ItReally Weird Author:Laura Dern
“It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.” PeopleWritingSongMomDadGuitarMy MomSatBirthdaySongwritingMom And DadClassical GuitarGoya16th Birthday Author:Stevie Nicks
“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.” PeopleThinkingWritingSchoolChanceDadSmartNotionMy DadJust OneAnything And Everything Author:Dolly Parton