Adrian Tomine Quotes

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

I think a handful of the roles that I've gotten to play are characters whom I've lived that are like younger versions of me but who are maybe more naive and a little bit wilder than when I was. And I've gotten to play 16 and 17 when I was a little bit older, so I got to pull from experience.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

First love is such a big thing growing up.

Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either I was going through or someone else in my life was going through.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

I'm sure we all can remember back in the day when you're 17, naïve, you're sort of just this unblemished teenager. You're sort of sheltered and haven't really seen the real world and then when you do see it, you're just like... "This is the world? This is reality?"

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

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.