“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.” MenWritingCharacterMotherFatherParentNiceReaderGentleSupportiveColorfulNice Man Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.” WayChildrenBookBigsFatherLiteratureCrimeReaderBecomingLoversAnnoyingLibrarianGreat BookNancyBook LoverNancy Drew Author:Asa Larsson
“From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.” TwoFatherInterestReaderFilledJazzVery GoodStorytellingTwo ThingsStorytellerPianistProvokedAvid Author:Athol Fugard
“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
“One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.” FeelsWritingLittlesFeelingsSchoolReadingFatherOpportunityNamesWishBitsProcessMemoriesWonderfulOne ThingReaderHigh SchoolAverageObsessedPrivacyYearningTopicsEmbarrassingConsumedOur FatherWriting And ReadingConfidentialTouchy Author:Ralph Keyes
“When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsShouldYearsMayHelpingKidsMotherAsksFatherStuffSleepReaderSexualityAsk MeBeneficialInterviewers Author:Missy Elliot
“I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.” KindStoriesFatherInterestingReaderTalesTallProxyTall Tales Author:Damon Lindelof
“Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.” KnowsBelieveBookStoriesSpiritualFatherWaitingReligiousTheoryReaderSittingLifetimeImpressionAddressesSooner Or LaterConvenientSitting AroundSingularityBeing A FatherTechnoKaleidoscopeSitting Around WaitingFulcrum Author:Ron Currie Jr.