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My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

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 classical musician and my mother was a writer.

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.