Attention Quote by MacKenzie Scott

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise…

— Louise Doughty

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

— Patricia MacLachlan

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown

I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing…

— Joseph Boyden

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

— Edna O'Brien

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that…

— Maggie Smith

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great…

— Jodi Picoult

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

— Anthony Shadid

All I am is a writer and a mom.

— Susan Straight

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while,…

— Anne Tyler

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

— Richard Russo