Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while…

— Jon Hamm

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother…

— Peter Carey

Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe…

— Carrie Fisher

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 think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having…

— Jenny Zhang

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

— Tracy K. Smith

Sometimes I miss my family badly. In those weak moments, books come to my rescue because they help me think differently.

— P. R. Sreejesh

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring…

— C. J. Box

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the…

— Ben Dolnick

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