Character Quote by Emma Healey

When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the…

— Emma Healey

I love Maude Pearson character from Agel. I love that she walls her son up because he has a girlfriend! In fact, I have…

— Beth Grant

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

— Judith Viorst

It's really heartbreaking that as our daughter Betty grows up she hasn't got her sister to grow up with and all the things Betty…

— Jason Watkins

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

— Elizabeth Scott

“She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings,…

— A.B. Shepherd

She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother. She was…

— Lee Isaac Chung

It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it…

— Margaret Atwood

“The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more…

— Frank Beddor

“She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.”

— William Wordsworth

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

— Tracy K. Smith