Skai Jackson Quotes

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

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

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

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.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

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'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

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

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

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

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

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

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

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