Began Quote by Jane Gardam

I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It…

— Carol Shields

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

— Robert Boswell

Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.

— J.I.D

“Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It’s a great job for a woman because she can work…

— Anne Mather

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

— Anne McCaffrey

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen.…

— Samantha Hunt

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

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

I became a children's author by accident.

— Jerry Spinelli

“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.”

— Geraldine Solon

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry

“But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife,…

— Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor