Buchi Emecheta Quotes

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

I like to write at home a lot.

I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

Mum was a teacher before I was born, but never worked after she had kids. She was too busy looking after us and making kedgeree.

I'm a mom. I work. I have a house to clean, things to organize. We all have certain similar needs, and I address them.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

Ah, typical writing day? Well, I tend to do e-mail and the business stuff of writing more in the morning while my brain wakes up and then write more in the afternoon, sometimes from about 11 until 5, or 12 until 5. If a story is driving me nuts, I'll work more in the evenings, but usually I try not to do that. That's family time.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.