Ian Mcewan Quotes

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

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.

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.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

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 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.

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.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

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

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

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

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

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

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.