Agents Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It…

— Carol Shields

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me…

— Tess Gerritsen

I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold…

— Anna Quindlen

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things…

— Jennifer Weiner

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and…

— Kristin Hannah

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and…

— Melissa Peterman

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want…

— Tea Obreht

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand…

— Harlan Coben

When I had my first child, I went back to Ireland to live with my mother. So, a typical day there was me being…

— Roisin Murphy