Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family…

“Wicked is wrong motives.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

— Ray Bradbury

I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family…

— Kenzaburo Oe

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

— Karl Rove

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

— William Nicholson

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all…

— Jodi Picoult

So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find…

— Christopher Durang

“There were other times, fortunately, when he knew better. “All I write about is family,” Elizabeth Cox told him. “That’s all there is to…

— Blake Bailey

Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent's approval. I like to think I write about them with obvious affection.…

— David Sedaris

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up.…

— Pat Conroy

I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres, and there's…

— Rohit Shetty

You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

— Mark Victor Hansen

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to…

— Jim Wallis

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

— Thomas Pynchon