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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
MARGARET ATWOOD My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI![]()
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ...
DREXEL DEAL![]()
When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professiona...
JONATHAN MABERRY![]()
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first sto...
SIDNEY SHELDON![]()
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ...
GINGER ROGERS My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As...
CHESLEY SULLENBERGER![]()
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&...
TOM WOLFE![]()
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to rev...
BETH DITTO![]()
When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger rea...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ...
EDMUND WHITE He became more quiet and more into himself a few months before he took his life. I didn't pursue it.
DENNIS STUBBLEFIELD As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS [Nine months ago, Jenkins, 29, was addicted to crack, a habit formed when he was 18. In February, he...
CURTIS JENKINS Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long frien...
GREG BEAR I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author b...
SAM WELLER![]()
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design bec...
YVES BEHAR My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS![]()
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW![]()
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW![]()
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ...
CARLOS SLIM![]()
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG![]()
I was just as in love with her in our eleventh year as I was in the first. Every anniversary was a v...
JAMIE MCGUIRE I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protest...
JUSTIN SANE![]()
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be...
PAT CONROY [That studio was built for her father shortly before his death from cancer in 1978.] It was a little...
FRANK MULLINS I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his ...
SHERRY JONES![]()
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing th...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
OSCAR TAVERAS![]()
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo...
NANCY PELOSI my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.
BERLIE DOHERTY![]()
When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I k...
YOKO ONO![]()
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father....
JIM HARRISON I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN![]()
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration ...
JOHN HOWE I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL![]()
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.
ANTHONY FOXX I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1...
CHEN-NING YANG![]()
I was pregnant when I did the first shot of Proof, and I started to show by the end. It was very imp...
GWYNETH PALTROW I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and ...
AULI'I CRAVALHO As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w...
FAIRUZA BALK![]()
From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. H...
SHELDON LEE GLASHOW Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt ab...
ANDREW O'HAGAN Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were al...
SAM WELLER![]()
I didn't recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bi...
DAVE MATTHES![]()
When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she&...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would rea...
ANDREW WYETH![]()
My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
ZOSIA MAMET![]()
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside m...
TONY PARSONS![]()
For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened s...
STEVE RASNIC TEM![]()
When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black be...
ELODIE YUNG I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign l...
MATT REEVES My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa...
JENNIFER JOHNSTON I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS Adam leaned down and placed his lips next to her ear. He blew gently on it before he spoke. Mona lea...
QUINN LOFTIS![]()
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading...
BORIS BECKER My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT![]()
I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that t...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't eve...
EDAN LEPUCKI I was just thinking back over the years and when I first came here. My first match as a freshman, al...
ALEXIS GORDON I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a pr...
DAVID SHEPHERD I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food ...
JOEY LAUREN ADAMS My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN![]()
I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when ...
KANDYSE MCCLURE![]()
I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.
BRIE LARSON![]()
I’ll be your family now,” he says.
“I love you,” I say.
I said that once, before I...
VERONICA ROTH![]()
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.&...
PAUL DI FILIPPO![]()
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent...
BEVERLY SILLS When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m...
DAK PRESCOTT My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and al...
TOBIAS LINDHOLM![]()
I liked everything I read about Braddock, ... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he wa...
RUSSELL CROWE![]()
When I went on my first run about two months after having my first child in 1998, I didn't get more ...
BONNIE BLAIR![]()
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE![]()
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who w...
BETH DITTO![]()
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my...
ANNE PERRY When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres...
ANNE COX CHAMBERS![]()
All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it in...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY![]()
I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND![]()
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time ...
ARNOLD PALMER My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she ...
PATRICIA MCBRIDE His career was only eight months long, and during that time we had moved from the ghetto to an upper...
BOB MORALES![]()
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading...
BORIS BECKER When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a...
JILL DAVIS![]()
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN![]()
How long have you been dating her?' I asked.
Nine months. We never got along. I mean, I didn't...
JOHN GREEN![]()
My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of...
FRANK DILLANE When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN
BEVERLY CLEARY Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie w...
SAM WELLER
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. MARGARET ATWOOD My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ... DREXEL DEAL
When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professiona... JONATHAN MABERRY
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first sto... SIDNEY SHELDON
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ... GINGER ROGERS My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As...
CHESLEY SULLENBERGER
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&... TOM WOLFE
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to rev... BETH DITTO
When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger rea... NEIL GAIMAN
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE He became more quiet and more into himself a few months before he took his life. I didn't pursue it.
DENNIS STUBBLEFIELD As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS [Nine months ago, Jenkins, 29, was addicted to crack, a habit formed when he was 18. In February, he...
CURTIS JENKINS Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long frien...
GREG BEAR I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author b...
SAM WELLER
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design bec... YVES BEHAR My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well a... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ... CARLOS SLIM
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I was just as in love with her in our eleventh year as I was in the first. Every anniversary was a v... JAMIE MCGUIRE I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protest...
JUSTIN SANE
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be... PAT CONROY [That studio was built for her father shortly before his death from cancer in 1978.] It was a little...
FRANK MULLINS I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his ...
SHERRY JONES
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing th... EDMUND WHITE
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ... LAURENCE HOUSMAN My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
OSCAR TAVERAS
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo... NANCY PELOSI my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.
BERLIE DOHERTY
When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I k... YOKO ONO
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father.... JIM HARRISON I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration ... JOHN HOWE I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents. ANTHONY FOXX I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1...
CHEN-NING YANG
I was pregnant when I did the first shot of Proof, and I started to show by the end. It was very imp... GWYNETH PALTROW I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and ...
AULI'I CRAVALHO As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w...
FAIRUZA BALK
From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. H... SHELDON LEE GLASHOW Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt ab...
ANDREW O'HAGAN Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were al...
SAM WELLER
I didn't recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bi... DAVE MATTHES
When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she&... CHRISTY TURLINGTON I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would rea...
ANDREW WYETH
My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me. ZOSIA MAMET
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside m...
TONY PARSONS
For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened s... STEVE RASNIC TEM
When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black be... ELODIE YUNG I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign l...
MATT REEVES My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa...
JENNIFER JOHNSTON I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS Adam leaned down and placed his lips next to her ear. He blew gently on it before he spoke. Mona lea...
QUINN LOFTIS
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading... BORIS BECKER My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT
I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that t... PHILIPPA GREGORY I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't eve...
EDAN LEPUCKI I was just thinking back over the years and when I first came here. My first match as a freshman, al...
ALEXIS GORDON I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a pr...
DAVID SHEPHERD I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food ...
JOEY LAUREN ADAMS My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN
I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when ... KANDYSE MCCLURE
I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven. BRIE LARSON
I’ll be your family now,” he says.“I love you,” I say.
I said that once, before I...
VERONICA ROTH
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.&... PAUL DI FILIPPO
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m...
DAK PRESCOTT My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and al...
TOBIAS LINDHOLM
I liked everything I read about Braddock, ... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he wa... RUSSELL CROWE
When I went on my first run about two months after having my first child in 1998, I didn't get more ... BONNIE BLAIR
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who w... BETH DITTO
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my... ANNE PERRY When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres...
ANNE COX CHAMBERS
All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it in... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time ... ARNOLD PALMER My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she ...
PATRICIA MCBRIDE His career was only eight months long, and during that time we had moved from the ghetto to an upper...
BOB MORALES
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading... BORIS BECKER When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a...
JILL DAVIS
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN
How long have you been dating her?' I asked.Nine months. We never got along. I mean, I didn't...
JOHN GREEN
My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of... FRANK DILLANE When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN
Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close... 
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. 
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal... 
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde... 
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. 
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly... 
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul... 
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what... 
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. 
I like power and I like to use it. 