Hallie Ephron Quotes

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

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

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

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

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

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

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.

The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my father. That was something that took me to another level of growing and maturing. That's whan I started to be more of a man.

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

My mother is my first role model. We have lived every dream together. The way she has balanced everything in life makes me want to be like her.

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

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

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

I was just a young kid out of Mexico, Missouri, and then Kansas City, having an opportunity to play at the University of Nebraska, where I grew as a man.

For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.

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.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.