Elliot Perlman Quotes

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

I am a child who is getting on.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are 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.

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.

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.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

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.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

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.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

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

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

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.

You can't be 16 forever.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Adults are only kids grown up