Annie Dillard Quotes

I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.

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

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

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

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

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 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.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

Early youth is a baffling time.

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.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

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.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

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

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've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.