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My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors. -- Tess Gerritsen
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. -- C. K. Williams
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment. -- Sue Townsend
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me. -- Hallie Ephron
A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology. -- Roxane Gay
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps. -- Elizabeth George
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth. -- Michael Morpurgo
I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability. -- Mike Scully
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade. -- Rodman Philbrick
The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing. -- James Salter
Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up. -- Patrick Modiano
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure. -- Natalie Goldberg
I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them. -- Paula Fox
The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking. -- Megan Smith
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music. -- Bat for Lashes
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? -- Robert Adamson
I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator. -- Kevin Mitnick
I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant. -- Joe Jonas
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane. -- Kurt Vonnegut

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