I don’t sleep, have not slept in sixteen years—

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them…

— Frank Abagnale

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are…

— Lights

Claire Cleary: Don't you think that's really soon? Secretary Cleary: Well, you know Gloria, she's impetuous. Has to have what she wants, when she…

— Wedding Crashers

Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can…

— Annie Ernaux

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for…

— Kendrick Lamar

“You think I’m sixteen, so I don’t know what love is, right?” She shakes her head, sad smile on again. “Sometimes I wonder if…

— Swati Avasthi

“As long as I keep moving, I should be OK. As long as I keep the notebook with me, I should stay alive. This…

— T.M. Goeglein

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted…

— Steven Spielberg

Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're…

— Roland Smith

Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in…

— John Knowles

My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I…

— Luke Pasqualino

I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when…

— Bubba Sparxxx