“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
“Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.” WorldLittlesHas BeensBookWholeValuesFoundWrittenChildhoodMaterialsAreasHistoricalAnalysisHistorianImageryNeglectedChunksHistory BooksPeripheryWritten History Author:Lloyd deMause
“I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.” YearsLittlesTodayRememberWrittenChildhoodYesterdayThrough The Years Author:Grandma Moses
“Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.” LordWrittenChildhoodHarmInnocenceNovelists Author:Paula Sharp
“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.” MenWritingStillsCountryStoriesOrderCitiesMoralFourWrittenHeardChildhoodStyleSceneAspectIntentionDareConvictionMaturityOld ManCensorshipChaptersIndifferentAdolescenceCentrePublic LifeMeannessParalysisDublin Author:James Joyce
“A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.” ChildrenMadeReasonHandsThreeFivePiecesWrittenChildhoodSubjectsEatingMouthsHundredRaisesPsychologicalWelfareExpertsRemoveFistsCarpetSeminars Book:Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces
“I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.” ThinkingWritingYearsLooksChildrenBookWrittenChildhoodAdultsEightPublishersWriting A BookNostalgicChildren's Books Author:Jeff Kinney
“In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.” WritingTwoBookPlayHandsSchoolUsedWrittenChildhoodWorkersMagazinesCapitalist Author:John Lennon
“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
“Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.” HumansSeemsHuman BeingsWrittenChildhoodGratitudeLettersThanksOfficialsSantaSanta Claus Author:Robert E. Lee