About Quote by Scott Turow

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all…

— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of…

— Carol Shields

Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time to understand…

— Dominique Jackson

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful…

— Elizabeth Strout

I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those…

— Rick Moody

I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress,…

— Derek Walcott

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

— Jeff VanderMeer

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel,…

— Nick Flynn

I am delighted to be an artist and follow in my mother's footsteps, even though I know I am not allowed to make a…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco