Character Quote by Mark O'Donnell

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 characters are often without a significant parental figure.

— Jamie Bell

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

— Zoe Kazan

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

— Anne Frank

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

— Mark Haddon

Parents create life for you and you are the one who live your own life. They made a book cover for us and you…

— Cynthiacqe

PARENTS CAN ONLY GIVE GOOD ADVICE OR PUT U ON THE RIGHT PATH BUT THE FINAL FORMING OF A PARENTS CHARACTER LIES IN THEIRBOWN…

— Anne Frank

My parents are very unusual characters, both of them - they're both only children, and they're great, but neither of them are the sort…

— David Baddiel

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

— Mark Haddon

Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to town, because…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2,…

— Mindy Kaling

The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy.

— Lisa Jewell