Parenting Quote by Christina Stead

“Tell me more about the mountains, Georgie said, because she wasn't really sure what to ask. Because ' tell me where I went wrong'…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”

— Erica Jong

“When my father would stop and ask for directions,'you can't miss it' were the only words he heard.”

— Lauren Alexander

“So that’s in the vault, right? Along with my underage drinking and fear of living on the Eastern Seaboard?” “You bet.” “You know all…

— Ainsley Booth

“I shall speak, not of self, but of geography.”

— Pablo Neruda

“I expected Dad to do his usual brisk thing and say something like, "Excellent. I will anxiously await your pronouncement on this significant matter."…

— Rachel Hawkins

“geography bends to the dictate of will.”

— Michelle Sagara

“When my sons asked the reason for my trip, I said that I needed to conduct research for my book. What is it about?…

— Nicole Krauss

“He was already beginning to understand that what was wrong with his writing was that there was something wrong, something misconceived, about him. If…

— Salman Rushdie

“I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed to me…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and…

— Bilal Tanweer

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo