I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.
Adrian Tomine
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie
I had a happy childhood.
Alastair Campbell
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
Alex Flinn
We grew up in a nice house in a very middle-class area in Bolton and had a very happy childhood. My mum, Falak, who was also brought over from Pakistan by her parents as a kid, devoted herself to bringing up me and my younger brother and sister, Haroon and Tabinda, and my elder sister Mariyah.
Amir Khan
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
Andy Serkis
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Berkeley Breathed
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
Bruce Robinson
I look back to a happy childhood.
Catherine Helen Spence
I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.
Dasha Zhukova
David Mitchell
I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.
David Quammen
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.
David Walliams
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.'
Edward Carey
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.
Emilia Fox
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.
Emma Donoghue
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.
Erin Gruwell
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
Frank McCourt
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.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
I didn't have a happy childhood.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.
I haven't had the difficulties in my life that other people have had. I didn't have an unhappy childhood.
I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.
I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
I had a very happy childhood.
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.
We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best friends.
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.
I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.
