Enough Quote by Garry Marshall

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

— Liza Minnelli

'MotherFatherSon' was just an extraordinary read and I wanted to be a part of it.

— Sarah Lancashire

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

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

— William Nicholson

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins…

— Ross Macdonald

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own…

— Bob Dylan

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher…

— Kenneth Cranham

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know…

— Arthur Bradford

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

— Anthony Shadid

I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

— Brendan O'Carroll

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

— Anne Waldman

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter