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childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood aging
The old are in a second childhood. Aristophanes
childhood fantastic repeats
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic. Vanessa Paradis
childhood made novel
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. V. S. Pritchett
childhood goes-on able
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. V. S. Naipaul
childhood gregarious close-family
My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family. Stephen Mangan
childhood stories remember
The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. Stephen King
made dear universe
I am what the universe made me to be, my dear. Brandon Sanderson
made presses
The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me. Billy Carter
made
I've made my peace with myself. Broderick Crawford
made feels judged
Nobody responds to being made to feel judged. Shalom Harlow
made wells
You were made to be kissed, often and well. George R. R. Martin
made showers
A hatt is not made for one shower. George Herbert
made wanted ifs
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. Franz Kafka
made
Blues was made for the recessed. Eric Burdon
made existence my-own
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God. Bede Griffiths
novel reader
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... Barbara Pym
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote.
novel heard eighty
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. Bonnie Jo Campbell
novels people
All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. Michel Faber
novel exception
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. Amos Oz
novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
novelists poet ifs
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' Philip Larkin
novelists function comment
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. Frank Norris
novelty literature advantage
Being a novelty had its advantages. Jessica Savitch