Marcel Proust
Novelist
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
Unhappy Childhood quotes
Unhappy Childhood
13 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thornton Wilder
Playwright, Novelist, Poet
"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood."
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