Childhood Quote by Beverly Cleary

“... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.”

— Sarah Winman

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

— George Eliot

In the immediate aftermath of the separation I just wrote and wrote and wrote. And wrote and wrote and wrote. Thank God I had…

— Pegi Young

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive…

— Maeve Binchy

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

— Jesse Harris

I just wrote all over my penis. I can't wait to get in another argument so I can put words in your mouth.

— Zach Taylor

I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and Eric driving.…

— Jessie James Decker

I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case…

— Natalie Goldberg

“Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The colonel nodded. "Our childhood seems so far away now. All this" - he gestured out of the vehicle - "so much suffering. One…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they…

— John Steinbeck

In his 70s, when I was in my 40s, my father still read me the stories he wrote about his childhood. His intonation, his…

— Michael Rosen