Seanan McGuire Quotes

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.

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.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

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

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

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.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

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

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

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

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

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 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.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

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

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

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

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

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.