Accidents Quote by Mindy Kaling

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

— Zoe Kazan

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family…

— Amy Bloom

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the…

— John Lanchester

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I…

— Maeve Binchy

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

— Lillian Hellman

I write about families. That is who we are.

— Per Petterson

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren…

— Margaret Mahy

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

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