Opposites Quote by Graham Swift

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

— Kevin Hart

When I was younger, I used to think that my unconventional upbringing was a weakness, but over the past few years, I've learnt to…

— Susan Fowler

I had a very difficult upbringing.

— Luke Evans

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

— Peter Dinklage

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

— Anthony Shadid

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

— Brian Aldiss

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having…

— Jenny Zhang

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

— Andrew Sean Greer

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

— V. S. Pritchett

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator,…

— Jeff Kinney

Growing up, I didn't know any writers and felt somewhat isolated.

— Marie Lu