Adolescent Writing Quotes

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

There's not a lot of good content to write about when you're 13 years old, so you just have to kind of fake it.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit I wanted to be a writer myself, and we did a project where I wrote terrible, 17-year-old fiction. But I remember a couple of the stories. I'd love it if I could read with pride something that I wrote that long ago, but it hasn't happened yet.

I write with teenagers in mind.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.