Maggie Carey Quotes

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.

So much changes in a year when you're a teenager.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

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.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

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.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

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

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.