Family Quote by Peter Orner

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

— Michael Dirda

I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite sex, different…

— Jim Jefferies

All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the…

— Ryan McGinley

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much…

— Agnes Varda

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

— Mary Ellen Mark

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family.…

— Jonathan Franzen

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or…

— Stanley R. Jaffe

I love being able to share my story to help others relate or cope with their own stuff they have going on at home.

— Sonya Deville

My stories are often a little mysterious.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

— James Dashner

I do a lot of writing about my family.

— Katey Sagal

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they…

— Peter Hedges