Quotes About Youth

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

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

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

A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.

Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they'll find a way to wear something if they like it.

Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people.

With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.

I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush.

It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are actually doing.

I write with teenagers in mind.