I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I…

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard,…

— Anne Lamott

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

— Paul Theroux

I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to…

— Kate DiCamillo

Our day-to-day lives are pretty chaotic. So in terms of the writing part, you have to get pretty disciplined about finding quiet moments and…

— Sarah Kay

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see…

— George Saunders

All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.

— Giles Coren

“I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great writing, it's…

— Sarah Shahi

I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot of my…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

I accepted Christ at a young age, at the age of six years old, and just tried to play hockey and balance that. I…

— Mike Fisher

My own personality is fairly optimistic and generally very happy, but like everyone else I've been through difficult stuff, particularly in my teenage years,…

— Jon Hopkins

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

— Bob Phillips

“You know...No boy is worth your teenage years!”

— Hayley Williams