After Quote by Marie Rutkoski

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat…

— Ruby Wax

Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body…

— Robin Beth Schaer

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most…

— Margaret Mahy

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole…

— Amor Towles

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if…

— Paula Deen

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

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

— Ainsley Earhardt

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The wedding fell…

— Stephanie Coontz