My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.