“Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.” PeopleGivingDifferentWould BeLiteratureInterestingWrittenChildhoodWindowMotherhoodDifferent PeoplesReally Interesting Author:Natalie Merchant
“What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.” ShouldHumansStillsTodayBeautifulFacesValuesActorsFoundLiteratureSpeakChildhoodObjectsComplexesDenyTheatreDramaticMaskLuminousExpressiveHuman FacesSymmetricalBeautiful Objects Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
“a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.” ChildrenLiteratureStrongStuffDealsChildhoodAdultsChildren's Literature Author:Philippa Pearce
“What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.” KnowsNeedsFactsUseFeelingsLife IsLiteratureFeltMy OwnEmotionChildhoodMy Own LifeChildren's Literature Author:Judy Delton
“I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there were people who didn't have that. There are a lot of teens who haven't had as easy a childhood as me, and having literature that explores these "darker" parts helps relieve the burden and stress they may be feeling. As a writer, there is often a temptation to draw back when we write for teens - to preserve their innocence. But the reality is, if someone has already had that innocence taken in their life, then not writing about it is just brushing it under the rug.” PeopleWritingHelpingFeelingsRealityLiteratureEasyTakenChildhoodStressBurdenInnocentTemptationInnocence Author:Jay Asher
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” LiteratureChildhoodDisease Author:Jane Yolen
“Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.” KindBookCertainLiteratureBehindsChildhoodReaderOpeningImmigrantsTravelerExileNomad Author:Roberto Bolano
“People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.” PeopleIfsLiteratureLeftChildhoodUnhappyInventingUnhappy Childhood Author:John le Carre
“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.” PeopleLiteratureChildhoodUnhappyCommunismCommunistCommunism And SocialismUnhappy Childhood Author:Gertrude Stein
“Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.” ChildrenDifferentPhilosophyFormLiteratureProcessChildhoodDevelopmentOvercomingFunctionTransformationComplexesEducationalFactorsEncountersInternalsMetamorphosisImpedimentsAdaptiveQualitativePeriodicity Author:Lev S. Vygotsky