My mother used to do all the things that were important to…

Fate, I think, is a thief.

— Lauren DeStefano

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of…

— Christopher Hitchens

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

— Oliver Sacks

At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by…

— Todd Solondz

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of…

— Christopher Hitchens

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

— Lynda Barry

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You…

— John Green

If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when…

— David Foster Wallace

The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we…

— Pat O'Shane

“She’s so pretty to look at and so lighthearted, the way your mother used to be before we married. But she’s not, let’s say,…

— Anne Tyler

My father passed away when I was two, and my mother was just 22-years-old back then. So young and only soul to take care…

— Bharti Singh

“Trouble comes to those who bring it upon themselves, her mother used to say,”

— Martha Conway

My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

My mother used to box, and I followed her footsteps into training. She loves fighting.

— Amanda Nunes

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris