My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.
What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.