Will Estes Quotes

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

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

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

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

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

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.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.

College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were.