Quotes About Youth

I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with 'the Nature Boy' on the back. That's awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.

I started messing around in my teen years but didn't really begin training properly until the age of 21. I did a lot of reading prior to that - Mike Mentzer, Arthur Jones and all other notable bodybuilding authors - and just came up with a routine that worked for me.

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.

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.

When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.

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

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

After 'Freaky Friday,' another teen movie was not on my playlist.

I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.

I've always enjoyed teen characters, and kids as well. For whatever reason, I seem to have an ability to do it sort of well, and I enjoy doing it.

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.