Konrad Lorenz Quotes

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.

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

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

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

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

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.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

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

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

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.

Whether it's 1970, 1990, or 2010, kids will be going through the same experiences.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

I enjoyed being a teenager.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.