Feelings Quote by Carol Shields

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

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful…

— Elizabeth Strout

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to…

— Natalie Merchant

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen.…

— Samantha Hunt

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing…

— Roald Dahl

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about…

— Paul Auster

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano