Explanation Quote by Stanislaw Ulam

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going…

— Samuel R. Delany

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

— Jasper Fforde

So many reactions in our lives are based on what happened to us when we were younger.

— Courtney Act

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have…

— Umberto Eco

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

— Robert Jay Lifton

“Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents - and myself -…

— Eudora Welty

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

— Tom Felton

“I remember a television program I once saw [...] I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the…

— Margaret Atwood

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I…

— Arthur Nersesian

It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't…

— Jon Watts

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening…

— Jonathan Franzen

I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had…

— David Bowie