Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.
I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.
(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
