Messed up Quote by Doris Lessing

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write…

— Aminatta Forna

My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't…

— Julia Child

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book…

— Asne Seierstad

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to…

— Jonathan Ames

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and…

— Harold Brodkey

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

— Lurlene McDaniel

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

— Diane Keaton

I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty…

— J. D. Vance

“It was no good being a mother. She wanted to start a website, a public-awareness campaign, a newsletter, to get the word out that…

— Joe Hill

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal,…

— Ian Hislop