I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'
I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
I had a happy childhood, I didn't know about money then.
I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
I didn't have a happy childhood.
