Childhood Quote by Ernest Hemingway Download Open image “Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.” — Ernest Hemingway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Fitness Mice Training Unhappy Unhappy childhood Writing
“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals and children… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
