Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.
I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted to chaos; I was addicted to self-harm, and I had to seek help at the hospital.
A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.
Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.
Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?
My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.
Childhood is a short season.
My father was in and out of jail throughout my childhood. He really wasn't in my life at all. Thankfully, I had two strong role models who guided me through those years.
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies.
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.
I love my childhood. It was a beautiful childhood.
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.
The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.
