Quotes About Author

I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and poems as you do at the age.

N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years.

Be it 'Teen Bahuraniyaan' or 'Qubool Hai,' Zee TV has always been special.

My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

Trump gets too much credit for 'Teen Vogue''s evolution.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.

'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.

Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.

I do get propositions, but you can't take it serious. I'm in me mid-forties, I've got teenage kids - there's no way I'm going to be caught in a Jacuzzi with some girl out of 'The Only Way Is Essex.'

I once got asked in an interview: 'Does it annoy you that the majority of your fans are teenage girls?' I was insulted and angry because it was sexist and ageist.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me on this - there was a time in my teenage years where I just ate all the time and never got full.

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing has been pretty significant.

I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.

'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.

I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a period drama for ages, and were all glued to it, and for the next three years, Jane Austen series were being made.