Any Quote by Per Petterson

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

— Shana Alexander

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

— Joely Fisher

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often…

— Anne Roiphe

I write about families. That is who we are.

— Per Petterson

The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family…

— A.M. Homes

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

— Sarah Weeks

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 felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a…

— Ken Kesey

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

— Karl Rove

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and…

— Alexander McCall Smith

We all hold on to some image of the family we want, based one way or another on the family we had. Lots of…

— Paul Reiser

There's so much written about my family, some true, mostly not true, and I felt that it's not something I want to add to.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda