Quotes About Family

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.

I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.

Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that they're my family, so my first reaction isn't always, 'Let me see what my dad and Miley think about this record.'

The cutest part is that both my grandparents have tried to adapt to my dream. When I sat them down and showed them a film that I did - with an intimate scene in it - I was surprised that their reaction wasn't dramatic. My grandmother even came to me to ask, 'How do you do it?'

I'm always picturing her, whenever I make a catch, her reaction. And sometimes, when I drop a ball, I'm like, 'Darn it. I let my mama down.'

Now if I go back home with an Olympic medal, the reaction of my family will give me immense satisfaction.

My granddad was very funny and I really loved making people laugh. I used to do puppet shows and I really liked seeing people's reactions.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

I already don't read reviews, I don't seek them out. Sometimes my family will tell me if there's a nice one.

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

The parents who read with their children and fill their houses with books produce the highest achievers.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.