It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
I think a lot of my shyness and non-athleticism came because I didn't have a father to instill those in me.
I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.
I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.