After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep... →
Marsha Norman
My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure... →
Douglass North
Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
Anne Northup
When my mother passed away I was 20.
Deborah Norville
I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother... →
Tig Notaro
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy... →
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
Lynn Nottage
My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the... →
Jehane Noujaim