Accomplish Quote by Ayelet Waldman

When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually…

— Jennifer Egan

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

— Robin Hobb

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I…

— Eckhart Tolle

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child,…

— Rita Dove

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as…

— Morris Gleitzman

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England…

— Monica Ali

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body…

— Robin Beth Schaer

I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook.…

— Tom Robbins

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

— Berkeley Breathed

I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children,…

— Ann Packer