Quotes About Author

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

I was also very concerned about protecting my family.

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"

I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family... the Dunne family

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.