When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.
Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.
I love books about dysfunctional families.
When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
Books were in my family - books were my family.
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
A lot of my YA novels are about family problems.
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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