“A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.” — Lydia Netzer Copy Share Image
I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women. — Florence Pugh Copy Share Image
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I naturally have a me-against-the-world mentality, and I've been fighting it since I was 13. It's felt like it's only gotten me… — Timothee Chalamet Copy Share Image
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for… — Betsy Hearne Copy Share Image
there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
“I had heard my brothers and sisters use curse words but had never dared use one myself in front of anyone. But… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
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