Shawn Colvin Quotes

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

My childhood went on far too long.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

I started growing late, so I was a late developer.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.

We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.

We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

High school is really when I came into my own.

Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for myself as I would've been at 12 or 13 years old.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.