Family Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

“It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

“They were not a family anymore. They were strangers. Tied together by chains, but they had rusted, and there was no hope for them…

— Callie Hunter

“There are so many stories, she thinks, and most of them end up lost.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“But what was family? Surely more than genes, eye color, flesh. Family was story: truth and struggle and retribution. Family was time. If he…

— Anthony Doerr

“...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and with such…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Stories find their way in each of us.”

— Sarah Buhl

“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone…

— Adam Langer

“The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.”

— Robert Crichton

“American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses anything, has…

— Zadie Smith

“others, the story losing”

— Ian W. Toll

“That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own lives, the…

— Brandy Purdy