Antonya Nelson Quotes

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

I like stories that affect families.

There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

Let me tell you about my family.

In a way, our family is our modern identity.

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.

I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.

There's tons of members of the Carradine family. It's more like a clan than it is like a family, and it's rare that we can get a bunch of them together. We do once in a while.