Emma McLaughlin Professions : Novelist Born : February 7, 1974 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Emma McLaughlin I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world. Emma McLaughlin woman you mom world If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps. Emma McLaughlin childhood parent love world It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume. Emma McLaughlin just library writing funny Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe. Emma McLaughlin you voice hair time Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction. Emma McLaughlin table own women awareness Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else. Emma McLaughlin nobody like dialogue humor I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though. Emma McLaughlin listen drive anything music Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors