Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. ”

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction. ”

When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love the man - so the shock of his bad behaviour is considerable, even when you know it is coming. ”

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians. ”

I ate cottage cheese all the time growing up, but it wasn't until I was in college that I became aware of the stigma surrounding it. ”

The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety. ”

Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio. ”

Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like. ”

I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. ”

I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift. ”