But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.
Instead I had Hell.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam LevensonTags: young
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
Nikolai GogolTags: time old young gogol nikolai
When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.
Brigitte BardotAll geniuses die young.
Groucho MarxI still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.
Anne LamottTags: advice writing writers tea writer publishing young publish reward
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail.
Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.
Tags: advice writing writers childhood child memoir encouragement memories young
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
Jodi PicoultTolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emil M. CioranI knew that most people would consider us too young to talk about lifelong commitments or marriage, but I couldn’t imagine taking her to bed without that promise. Even if it meant never being with her, I didn’t want to have one desperate, hurried, hidden night. I wanted to put a ring on her finger. I wanted a future—or nothing. I knew, in her heart, that she would want that, too
Beth FantaskeyTags: marriage commitment young
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