“I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'” FatherFictionWeekMinutesStudentsOfficeFellowsLawyerCoffeeShopsLunchDaddyCablesWorkshopsCourtshipIowaCoffee Shop Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.” IfsWayWantFatherFictionCarSonHugeUniversalBest WayWarfareFather SonInterstellarLoving RelationshipsFather Son Relationship Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.” WayWantHardDreamWantedJobsArtistFatherFictionSupportNovelDadMy FamilyScience FictionMy DadRidiculousBunchPainterFrustratedSparesOur FatherBeing An ArtistSpare TimeFiction Novels Author:Rainn Wilson
“I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.” KindLittlesFatherSecretFictionGrewDadGrew UpDaughterScience FictionMy DadBondingBonding Time Author:Katee Sackhoff
“My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.” WayLongStoriesFatherFictionStrugglePaintingMaterialsLong TimeImmigrantsPoetry IsRight WayEighteenRaw Materials Author:Philip Schultz
“I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingYearsHumansKindBookEndsDreamCertainFatherHuman BeingsFictionCompassionWinterFinishedPityComplimentJournalNon Fiction Author:Paul Auster
“My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.” FirstsBookHardLawFatherFictionStudyTaughtAreasDecidedPoliceSeriesCriminalsCaliforniaProceduresDetectivesExpertiseFiction WritersCriminal LawDetective Fiction Author:Sue Grafton