Quotes About Communication

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.

I put my mother through a lot when I was a teenager. I used to lie a lot. Now, we talk all the time.

I sold muffler parts over the phone when I was a teenager.

I definitely think, when you're a teenager, it's more forgiving to talk to strangers and go up to people at a mall or whatever.

I grew up in the '70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends.

I always had a hard time communicating my emotions. I'd retreat into my bedroom and listen to music. And when you're a teenager, you're dealing with all these hormones. It's like, 'What are these?'

I remember being a teenager and feeling like I could talk to anyone anywhere about anything.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Parents are almost fearful of disciplining their children. They are scared they are going to lose the connection with them when they are teenagers or adults.

Often, when a girl has a crush on a boy, her friend will dare her to speak to him or ask for a pencil, or better yet, let him know that she has a crush. Pretty risky stuff... It happens thousands of times a day in the lives of teenagers everywhere. Putting yourself out there. Daring to expose your true feelings.

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.

I write with teenagers in mind.

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!

I'm not sure I could ever write for adults. That's not to throw shade or anything, but I feel like teenagers are much more open-minded and willing to listen sometimes.

I was getting calls in 1970 from teenagers, little girls, and they'd say, 'Oh, I like your stories about so-and-so so much. How old are you? 20?' 'No. Older than that.' '30?' 'No. Older than that.' And they'd hang up.