Knows Quote by Emma Donoghue

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

— Navya Nair

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha

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

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

— Jessica Hagedorn

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job -…

— Joanne Harris

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a…

— Doris Lessing

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at…

— Jane Gardam

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent…

— Stephen King

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

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

— Lisa Whelchel

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

— Mick Foley

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

— Anna Quindlen