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Writers will happen in the best of families.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

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 with them.

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.

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.

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.