Gene Fowler Quotes

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.

As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.

My mom is, like, my biggest fan of my fight world, which is funny 'cause you'd think it'd be the opposite.

I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.

My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there.

When you have a big family, certainly with strong personalities, you feel like you have to fall into a role, and I didn't want to be the little sister or the daughter, because that's who you become as an adult.

I was supposed to be the doctor in my family.

We had a talk early on and decided we did not want to end up like the Hogans.

It's funny 'cos I think a lot about kids who grow up with their parents being really important members of their fields, and they just go the opposite way.

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

My brother is gay and my parents don't care, as long as he marries a doctor.

The truth is, my father stopped bothering me after Stigmata, because I got to play a priest. That fulfilled his dream. The cop thing was a little overdone to him because my brother was already a police officer.

She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.