Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
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I do a lot of writing about my family.
I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
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 has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.
I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.
I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.
I write about families. That is who we are.
I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
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