Children Quote by Anne Roiphe

Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm writing.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I write about families. That is who we are.

— Per Petterson

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said…

— Nora Ephron

My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative.

— Lucy Beaumont

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

— Judy Blume

In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I…

— Zadie Smith

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and kept going.…

— Sefi Atta

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

— Isabel Allende

Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my family, my…

— Patrick Reed

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume