Family Quote by Bugzy Malone

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was…

— Jesse L. Martin

Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My…

— Renee Watson

My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles…

— Olivia Wilde

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and…

— David Tennant

I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really…

— Joe Robert Cole

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends…

— Drew Barrymore

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I…

— Dido Armstrong

My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a…

— Denise Mina

I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my…

— Jenny Han

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.

— Terence Crawford

I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or…

— Stanley R. Jaffe