Book Quote by A.M. Homes

I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a…

— Per Petterson

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

— Patricia MacLachlan

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family.…

— Jonathan Franzen

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

— Pat Conroy

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

— Shana Alexander

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.

— Joely Fisher

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to…

— Bruce Feiler

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that…

— Dean Koontz

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

— Maureen O'Hara

“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A…

— Munindra Misra

My family was pretty much the way a family was supposed to be, a Norman Rockwell kind of family, I'm afraid. I say 'I'm…

— Charles Murray

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my…

— Glen Duncan