Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.
Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.
Every family is dysfunctional.
Writers will happen in the best of families.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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.'
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