Amanda Schull Quotes

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

All of us are products of our childhood.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become.

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that I knew - were the ones from my childhood.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

The child is father of the man.