Ned Vizzini Quotes

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

It's one huge arc right until you're in your early 20s. You're always changing and always learning, but it's very much that chapter in your life: fall crazy in love, become extremely angry at little things. It's a tumultuous time.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.