About Quote by Pat Conroy

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great…

— Jodi Picoult

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

I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the other characters.…

— Marie Calloway

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use…

— Bill Bryson

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

— Amos Lee

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as…

— Nick Flynn

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and…

— Gloria Steinem

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.

— Joely Fisher

I write about families. That is who we are.

— Per Petterson

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

— Isabel Allende

People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father and his…

— Anna Quindlen