Children Quote by Derek Walcott

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both…

— Derek Walcott

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

— Mick Foley

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that…

— Alicia Keys

They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I luckily had…

— Dan Fogelman

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was…

— Maureen Forrester

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

— Pedro Almodovar

My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So,…

— Richard Greenberg

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 was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to…

— Natalie Merchant

There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about…

— Faith Ringgold

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the…

— Francine Rivers