Books Quote by Julia Roberts

Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of…

— Kay Boyle

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

As a teenager, I was undeveloped and out of touch. The arts was another arena in which to do combat and challenge myself. I…

— Jesse Andrews

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

— David Crabb

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that…

— John Ruskin

I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those…

— Wendy Lesser

As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you…

— Gia Coppola

“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And…

— Eliot Schrefer

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and…

— David Tennant

As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.

— Michael Owen

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

— Jessica Mitford

“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from school reading…

— Audrey Niffenegger