In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
John George NicolayMice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
Ernest Hemingway on Writing[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.
The Forest for the TreesThe danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
The Gravedigger's Daughter