“My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.” FeelsStillsHomeChildhoodFolksChildhood Home Author:Topher Grace
“The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds.” WritingHomeDreamTurnsChildhoodOfficeDoctorsYour ChildrenSurrealChildhood Home Author:Diablo Cody
“I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.” KnowsHomeFatherChildhoodProjectsCuresRealisingChildhood HomeDead Father Author:Guy Maddin
“One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.” ThinkingShouldWritingLooksHomeWantedSchoolPastGivenParentWonderOne ThingChildhoodDevelopmentNegativeImpactNotesIntellectMy ThoughtsAbsentMy PastBulliedPast ExperiencesHome LifeFreedom To ReadChildhood Home Author:Marie Calloway
“I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.” Has BeensHomeDesireWrittenChildhoodDrivenRepulsionChildhood Home Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.” HomeChildhoodFieldsFatherhoodWheatCottonCotton FieldsWheat FieldsChildhood Home Author:Robert B. Laughlin
“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.” PeopleMayTwoSometimesReasonDoneHomeDreamPastHouseSoundTermChildhoodPrideHealthyComfortableLateBuiltOwnershipDesirableConvenientLightersEmbodimentIndomitableDream HouseChildhood Home Author:Gaston Bachelard
“… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.” KnowsWantHelpingHomeHealingChildhoodBrokenAssumingChildhood Home Book:Hannibal Rising Source: Hannibal Rising