Jack London Novelist, Journalist “All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.” Soul Childhood Identity ♥ 3
Jack London Novelist, Journalist “Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.” Real Dream Childhood ♥ 3
Neil Gaiman Author “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.” Way Missing Childhood ♥ 3
Marcel Proust Novelist “No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.” Book Childhood Pleasure ♥ 3
Isabel Allende Novelist “I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.” Writing Kids Childhood ♥ 3
KD Katie Dippold Screenwriter “I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.” Thinking Parent Childhood ♥ 3
LeBron James Professional Basketball Player “My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.” Memories Childhood Who I Am ♥ 3
LA Lee Atwater Political Consultant “My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.” School Skills Childhood ♥ 3
JA James A. Baldwin Writer “I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.” Stories Childhood Usual ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.” Sky Childhood Sorrow ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.” Would Be Childhood New Experiences ♥ 3
Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model “Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.” Play Childhood Wonder ♥ 3
