Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes childhood novelist perpetual
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. Simon Mawer bankliterarymanager Change image and share on social
I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes! Simon Mawer easyfindheaven Change image and share on social
I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life. Simon Mawer ageboarddesperately share on social
I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, 'I can grow beyond it.' Mekhi Phifer cycledeadenvironment share on social
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim. Juno Temple childhooddressfancy Change image and share on social
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it. Pamela Sargent businessconnectdeal share on social
