Accidents Quote by Leslie Banks

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

— Alison Moyet

Writing was my companion and stories were my companion when I was bedridden and didn't think I was going to walk again and all…

— Jennifer Lynch

When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually…

— Jennifer Egan

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

— Lucinda Williams

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.

— Amanda Harlech

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's…

— Tory Burch

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me…

— Tess Gerritsen

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because…

— Dave Itzkoff

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job -…

— Joanne Harris