Adolescence Quote by Alice Hoffman

I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a…

— Allan Stratton

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

— Emily Giffin

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the…

— Aimee Bender

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance…

— Meg Cabot

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

— Diablo Cody

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity…

— Linus Roache

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My…

— Renee Watson

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of…

— Jonathan Lethem

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

It's easy to feel like you don't have any control over yourself or your life or your body as a teen - everything is…

— Noelle Stevenson