Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher…

Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my…

— Ken Ludwig

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

— Wendell Pierce

First song I write, me go to my mother, and she say, 'Write love songs.' She's one of the oldest, so she's gone through…

— Skip Marley

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what…

— Teddy Pendergrass

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my…

— Alice Walker

“I sometimes wish my childhood had been less obsessed with the question of why we are here. But that must be the question of…

— Patricia Lockwood

“I think I was born to write. My mother would put a typewriter on the dining room table and say "there you go". My…

— Ida Pollock

You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to…

— Anthony of Sourozh

One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore…

— Tracy K. Smith

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice…

— Anonymous

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

— Doris Lessing

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you…

— Lorrie Moore

“Sometimes he'd write my mother's new name under his on a scrap of paper...then, the one that hurt her teeth to see, Mrs. Brock…

— Laura Kasischke

“there are things in life which one can confide in one person only, whom one trusts. It is because of this that I write…

— Anton Chekhov

There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds,…

— Sonam Wangchuk