“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.” WritingYearsDreamRememberNextFatherLeftFiveMinesMonthsScenePagesEightTwinsFragments Author:Tamora Pierce
“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.” SchoolFatherCareersRolesMonthsHigh SchoolMathematicsFilledEightMedicalI RealizedGreekFeminineLatinGapsPermissionMedical SchoolProfessional Career Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini
“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.” WritingFirstsChildrenAgeMotherFatherAlivePoetEightMother And FatherPissed OffOdesDead Mother Author:Judith Viorst
“I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.” FatherBrotherEightMy BrotherBoxingExesTournamentsBoxers Author:Juan Manuel Marquez
“My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.” MotherFatherMarriedDeterminationDignityTwentiesEightLoyaltyThirtyFierceUnyieldingSteadiness Author:Jill Lepore
“The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.” ThinkingLastsFatherGamesSonEightUniformsLast TimeFather Son Author:Ken Griffey, Jr.
“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.” ThinkingMenDifferentHappensSchoolYoungFatherParentBoysGrewGrew UpTheaterTownsEightYoung ManSiblingMy SiblingsTheater Family Author:John Lithgow