If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
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.