Melissa Peterman Quotes

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

Being a mom has made me a better person. It's made me more compassionate. It's just awesome. I think I was put here to be a mom.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

I'm not a perfect mom, but I'm perfect for my kids.

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

I'm learning every day, and I have been since the minute I became a mom.

I wrote the children's books, and those were wonderful tributes to my life as a daughter and a mother and just a thank-you to my parents for all the lessons in life they had passed on to me that I could pass onto my child and to other kids around the world.

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

Over the years, I grew up as a person and made mistakes and had a great time and had a baby, kind of grew as a person and as an artist.

For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about living.

It's lovely to write for the youngsters because through your story, you can teach them the lessons of life.

The best place to learn acting is your own home. Everyday there is a new drama and every day you get to learn something new in your own house. So I have learned a lot from there.

I think I would have appreciated being at home with my kids a little bit more. Raising a child, surely that in itself is the biggest thing we're ever going to do?

I had a lot of adversity that kind of tested my maturity and things I was able to learn from and were put in my way for a reason, to make me a mature person and more experienced person.

I want to share the experiences I've had.

I am really bad at being a mom. I think it's hard for me to be a mom. I do my best. I am not the poster child for being a mother, I will say that. I wish I was.

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

Your children teach you so much. It's a real mirror of yourself.