Grow Quote by Fallon Sherrock

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

— Jamelia

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

— Shonda Rhimes

I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up…

— Janet Evanovich

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

— Stephen King

I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff down.' It's…

— Anh Do

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine…

— Gillian Flynn

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

— Hans Arp

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even…

— Mary Blakely

My mom was pretty young, and she did what she could do.

— Tavon Austin

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

— Aimee Bender

“The moral of this story is simple. Some moms are equipped by the hand of God to be “that mom.” They have been formed…

— Lysa TerKeurst