Diablo Cody Quotes

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

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 feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

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

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

You write a book, it's out for however many years, and with the passing of time, you're not the same person. I'm not the same person I was when I wrote those books; I'm not even the same person I was when I started writing 'Beg.' I had many shifts spiritually, and one of them was in the use of language.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

One thing that did give me pause for thought, when I told my female friends now that I was writing about a 13-year-old girl, without exception they all said, 'I would not go back to being 13 for a million pounds.'

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

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 went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

I think it's very important to grow as a person from the experiences you encounter in life.

I don't think I've grown up easily.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for myself as I would've been at 12 or 13 years old.

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

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.

People grow up by living.