Dacre Montgomery 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'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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 always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

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

I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.

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.

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 I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

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

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s.

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

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

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

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

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

My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I grew up just as my friends did until 19 before leaving home, and it's because of that I am who I am now.

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

I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is going on.

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 came to the age, at 20, that is hard to transfer to an adult. I had a good list of credits, but it's just hard. So I went out for parts when there were some, and I traveled a little, had some fun, and then met my husband.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.