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My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.

— Louise Erdrich

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father was a huge influence on me.

— Carol Leifer

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

— Shakira

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

— Umberto Eco

My father is my inspiration.

— Mahesh Babu

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.

— Andre Dubus III

I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.

— Louis Theroux

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

— Elizabeth Strout

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.

— Judith Viorst

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life.

— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

✗Opposing Perspectives

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

— Tea Obreht