Kids Quote by Dan Chaon Download Open image “I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.” — Dan Chaon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kids Stills Thinking Writing
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten. — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story. — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“It's hard to believe that this is how it's done. That this is how we get here into the world, by accident or design,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and jiggle my… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, you could see it swirling wildly through the… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“He pictures amputated human arms flopping like fish down the center of the road; syringes floating on beds of liposuctioned fat; gelatinous human eyeballs… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
