Abdomen Quote by Fran Lebowitz

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

— Edna O'Brien

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly…

— Daniel Handler

“The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its…

— Frank Hauser

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

— Eric Metaxas

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

— Anonymous

Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do…

— Marianne Williamson

When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was…

— Ayelet Waldman

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

— Richard Russo

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are…

— Laura Bush

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

— R. L. Stine

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who…

— Susan Orlean