Woody Allen writes: Probably, if my parents had pushed along more cultural lines I might have started out being a more serious writer, because that's what has always interested me. But I had no cultural background whatsoever, and I mean absolutely none. I grew up in a typical noisy ethnic family in Brooklyn. I didn't go to a play until I was about eighteen years old, almost never went to a museum, listened only to popular music, and never read at all. ~from Woody Allen on Woody Allen
This comes from a famous Canadian writer: "A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life." - Robertson Davies
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen." – Willa Cather
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous". – Robert Benchley
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