Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.
Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.
We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.
Life is a very emotional experience.
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.