About Quote by Don Ameche

I read 'Mommie Dearest,' and while I am not comparing myself to Joan Crawford, I will never uproot my child. I won't make my…

— Helen Baxendale

“I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on or recommend…

— Will Schwalbe

I was never interested in writing a 'Mommie Dearest,' getting even with Mia - none of that.

— Soon-Yi Previn

“I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; "Blackbirds" stowed in…

— Strickland Gillilan

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my…

— Alice Walker

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

— Roald Dahl

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to child bearing,”

— Anonymous

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are…

— E. M. Delafield

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really…

— Garry Marshall

When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as…

— Heber J. Grant

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

— Maurice Sendak

'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.

— Jonathan Franzen