Adolescent Years Quotes

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

When I came out of school, my mum was one of the youngest mums waiting at the gate. She was the cool mum on the block.

'Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.