Jon Hamm Quotes

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

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 feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

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

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

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.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.