Diablo Cody Quotes

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.

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

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

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.

What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

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.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

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.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

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.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

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

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.