I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a…

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

— Damien Chazelle

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

— Freeman Dyson

“Jesse couldn't picture a more desolate setting to meet his end. He watched the water drops gather and slide down the windshield, remembered how…

— Brom

“And what do we do when we reach the cover of the trees?" He asked, wanting to roar at the top of his lungs…

— Anonymous

“had been published years earlier, Bosch was nevertheless”

— Michael Connelly

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier,…

— Ishmael Beah

If I'd met the prince two or three years earlier, perhaps I might not have married him - at least not so soon. But…

— Grace Kelly

When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only…

— Don Kardong

“Of course, human tissue completely It's unlikely that scar was composed of the same molecules. Do you think it is really appropriate to consider…

— Max Barry

“She had joined the Viet Cong herself four years earlier, its Young Pioneer Organization.”

— Mark Bowden

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

— Johan Renck

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read…

— Alastair Reynolds

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back…

— William Kunstler

Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and…

— Stephen Fry

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

— Jenova Chen