Childhood Quote by Rachel Kushner

“I know i'm making her sound like something out of a story. But it was the other way around. When my mother told me…

— Naomi Novik

“My mother told stories - of their life in the war and how she'd played the accordion in the air-raid shelter and it had…

— Jeanette Winterson

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

— Jon Gordon

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image…

— Howard Pyle

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to…

— Jim Jefferies

My sister was actually more of the sci-fi/fantasy person. I wasn't into it as much, although I think it allows you to tell really…

— Kristin Kreuk

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put…

— Shelby Lynne

“Eleanor unpacked the picnic basket and spread Mrs. Stevenson's goodies across it. As the sun rose higher in the sky, the four of them…

— Kate Morton

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a…

— Dorothy Allison

“David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her,…

— John Connolly

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He…

— Philip Pullman

“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself…

— Alice Munro

Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me,…

— Sean Baker