It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

- James Patterson

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

- Jane Smiley

My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

- J. B. Pritzker

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

- Max von Sydow

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

- Ron Wood

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

- Robert Cormier

I've been truly protected by my uncles.

- will.i.am