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'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.

— Akhil Sharma

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I love books about dysfunctional families.

— Sara Shepard

Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

— Sharon Shinn

I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.

— Nia Long

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

— Chevy Chase

A lot of my YA novels are about family problems.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

— Maeve Binchy

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.

— Per Petterson

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

— Patricia MacLachlan

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

✗Opposing Perspectives

I quickly realized I live the least interesting literary life imaginable. My parents are happily married. There haven't been any major traumas. I'm not sure that the story of my life would be much fun to read.

— Anthony Marra