Young Characters Quotes

I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have.

The wonder, especially about the 'New Mutants' is, they're all kids. They're all growing. They're changing, literally, from page to page in terms of character and approach, past, present, and future. As a writer, that's the most delicious thing to play with.

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

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.