Adolescence Quote by Don Hertzfeldt

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the…

— Alice Hoffman

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are…

— Zoe Saldana

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important,…

— Jason Katims

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

— Leigh Newman

As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something…

— Sam Smith

I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you…

— Jodi Picoult

“So it is written - but so, too, it is crossed out. You can write it over again. You can make notes in the…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

— Marie Lu

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

— Joan Lingard

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course,…

— Meg Rosoff