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I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

— Nick Harkaway

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

— Amy Chua

I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

— Chelsea Cain

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

— Tea Obreht

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

— Salman Rushdie

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

— Jewel

I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.

— Fuzzy Zoeller

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

— Hallie Ephron

I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

— Michael Morpurgo

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

— Edan Lepucki

My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.

— Bharati Mukherjee