Kate Winslet Quotes

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

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

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

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

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.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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 was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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 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.

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

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

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

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.