Books Quote by S.E. Anderson

“Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm.”

— Katey Sagal

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can…

— Emma Donoghue

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

There's no handbook to parenting, there's just opinions and statistics.

— Uncle Kracker

“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its…

— Laura Kinsale

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I…

— J. K. Rowling

“This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best…

— Faye Snyder

“Babies are the worst roommates. They’re unemployed. They don’t pay rent. They keep insane hours. Their hygiene is horrible. If you had a roommate…

— Jim Gaffigan

“But who could teach daughters how to fly? Parents were by definition earthbound, grub eaters, feet in their own coffins, by dint of being…

— Gregory Maguire

“Children were only strangers you agreed to live with”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna