Cringe Quote by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.

— Eliza Taylor

I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.

— Abi Morgan

I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.

— Noah Hathaway

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably…

— Melissa Ordway

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the…

— Rachel Griffiths

Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it.

— Julie Plec

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the…

— Neil Strauss

Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated ranching town,…

— Susan Schneider

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of…

— S. E. Hinton

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

— Joseph Brodsky

My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales…

— Margaret Atwood

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on,…

— Paul Auster