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My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

— Mia Farrow

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Michael Tolkin

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

I always wanted to be a writer.

— John Searles

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

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

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

— Kerry Washington

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.

— Amish Tripathi

✗Opposing Perspectives

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