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“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.”

Writing Reading Father Grew Grew Up Writing And Reading

Author:Anne Lamott

“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.”

Source: Daniel Deronda

“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.”

“What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.”

Used Reading Father Left Illness Impression Evening

Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.”

Book Different Reading Father Lost Causes Sadness Taste Six Eating Agree Cooking Cooks Obsessed Kitchen Seconds Recipes Tasting Eating Food Happiness Sadness

Author:Richard Simmons

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

Littles Book Reading Father Tyrants

Author:Honeysuckle Weeks

“Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.”

Reading Father Written Scene

Author:Alafair Burke

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

Book Reading Father Teacher Angry Reading Books Impatient Dyslexic Dyslexia

Book:Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.”

Book Ends Remember Reading Father Wind Grew Grew Up Dependent Exception Hospitals Household Boast Stepmothers Wind In The Willows

Author:John le Carre