Books Quote by Eoin Macken

It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with…

— Rooney Mara

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

— Matthew Desmond

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

— Tablo

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I…

— John Cusack

“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.”

— Rick Robinson

Now being 41 and looking back on my career... It became natural for me to revisit Inglewood and to revisit the coming-of-age movie, but…

— Rick Famuyiwa

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back…

— Boy George

“Walking to class, Cath couldn't shake the feeling that she was pretending to be a college student in a coming-of-age movie. The setting was…

— Rainbow Rowell

Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you…

— J. G. Holland

Michael Schultz's 'Cooley High' is a classic. Oftentimes, we don't get to see films about coming of age, especially for young African Americans.

— Salim Akil

I think of L.A. as my home now, in large part because I became the entity that I am in L.A. I always say…

— Jodie Turner-Smith