Taylor Louderman Quotes

You find your personality real quick in school.

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.

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.

Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

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

I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

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

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.

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.

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

I was sort of a floater in high school; I feel like I tried my hand at all the different stereotypes or cliques. I'm grateful for the experience to walk in all those different shoes.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

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.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.