Beanie Feldstein Quotes

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.

I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.

Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.

One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.

Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

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.

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

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

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

'Dawson's Creek' was my college experience.

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

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

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

I love 'Whale Rider.' That's one of my favorite films of all time.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.