Quotes About Author

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's house.

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.