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title: "10 Books Childhood Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/i-do-not-remember-any-proper-children-s-books-in-my-childhood-i-was/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/maurice-sendak-1273_book_i-do-not-remember-any-proper-children-s_2994028.jpg)

> [I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khaled-hosseini/i-have-been-a-fan-of-comic-books-since-childhood/)

[Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khaled-hosseini/)

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> [A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/astrid-lindgren/a-childhood-without-books-that-would-be-no-childhood-that-would-be/)

[Astrid Lindgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/astrid-lindgren/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/618/astrid-lindgren-13229_book_a-childhood-without-books-that-would-be_3057893.jpg)

> [To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/to-return-to-the-books-of-my-childhood-is-to-yield-to-the-strain-of/)

[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-505_books_to-return-to-the-books-of-my-childhood-i_26431.png)

> ['Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uzodinma-iweala/talking-peace-is-one-of-the-few-books-from-childhood-that-i-still/)

[Uzodinma Iweala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uzodinma-iweala/)

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> [When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-you-write-for-children-and-young-adults-you-have-much-more/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadezhda-mandelstam/on-the-bottom-shelf-m-kept-the-books-from-his-childhood-days-pushkin/)

[Nadezhda Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadezhda-mandelstam/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6d/nadezhda-mandelstam-64684_books_on-the-bottom-shelf-m-kept-the-books-fro_1491301.png)

> [“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-ruiz-zafon/max-had-once-read-in-one-of-his-father-s-books-that-some-childhood/)

[Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/carlos-ruiz-zafon-126_books_max-had-once-read-in-one-of-his-father-s_2988490.jpg)

> [The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-buzbee/the-books-of-our-childhood-offer-a-vivid-door-to-our-own-pasts-and/)

[Lewis Buzbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-buzbee/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/846/lewis-buzbee-27369_book_the-books-of-our-childhood-offer-a-vivid_424806.png)

> [These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-straub/these-days-there-are-a-great-many-books-about-childhood-trauma-and/)

[Peter Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-straub/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac5/peter-straub-10217_books_these-days-there-are-a-great-many-books_682257.jpg)

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