Certain Quote by Gertrude Stein

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with…

— Jonathan Lethem

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

— E. B. White

Is you Parents an artist? Because They Made you a perfect Master peace.

— NO VOICE

Parents are true friends

— Daudi Bilingi

Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous…

— Chris Abani

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much…

— Steven Erikson

I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there…

— Kim Brooks

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

— Tim Burton

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

— Dennis Prager

I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother while they…

— Pegi Young

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel,…

— Nick Flynn

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

— William Styron