When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The... →
Tea Obreht
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and... →
My mother's a pretty warm, open person.
Adepero Oduye
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger von Oech
From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time... →
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in... →
Gary Oldman
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an... →
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
Elizabeth Olsen
Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
Yoko Ono
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.