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I write about families. That is who we are.

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

I have a very, very creative 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.

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.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

I write about my life.

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

I write a lot about myself.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.