“Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.”

— Beverly Cleary

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American writer of children's books 1916

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet (1763–1841) British judge

Trial of Dewhurst and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 607.

“No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That’s your trouble: your ignorance of life.”

John Fante book Ask the Dust

Source: Ask the Dust

“I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

Source: Come to Me

“At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying to stop what you’re doing. They threaten people, your family, saying: 'Your children won’t find jobs.”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

2010-, China’s Censorship Can Never Defeat the Internet, 2012

“It's amazing what success will do. I've just started a new book after taking a break of a year and a half since finishing 'The Book of Evidence,' and I'm fascinated to see if I can detect in myself a voice saying, 'Tone that bit down; make that bit easier; give them a few laughs,' which would be absolutely fatal. I don't think it's happening, but you can't tell what's happening beneath the surface.”

John Banville (1945) Irish writer

Once More Admired Than Bought, A Writer Finally Basks in Success (1990)

“In my childhood years, I dreamt of being a footballer. But as my friends often joke, they tried to take the ball in an unsportsmanlike way... which is how I became a boxer.”

Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician

2008
Source: [Виталий Кличко ответил на вопросы читателей Корреспондент.net, https://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/386098-vitalij-klichko-otvetil-na-voprosy-chitatelej-korrespondent-net, 2022-06-13, korrespondent.net, ru]

“Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”

James A. Owen (1969) Illustrator

Source: The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories

“If we could all rephrase the question from "What was your most embarrassing moment?" to "What was your most embarrassing year?" Then I might be able to give you an honest answer.”

Buddy Wakefield (1974) American poet

Thin Ice
Poetry

“That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.”

Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation

E. Payne, trans., Vol. II, Ch. 7, p. 74
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

“Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.”

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