Character Quote by Emily Giffin Download Open image “Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!” — Emily Giffin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Long Long time Time Try again Trying Wanted Writing
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 Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age. — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. — Iain Lawrence Copy Share Image
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I'll write teen stories as long as people will let me. I'll also be excited for the day when I'm told I can no… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends. — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share
The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Well, anyway… it’s over,” I say, realizing that those two words lump me right in with a hoard of naive women who say it’s… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life... — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I desperately want to feel that way again. To be in a relationship that I’m not trying to script or water down. It’s about… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
