When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.
But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?
People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to. ' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.
The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U. S. are getting it in their teens.
In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.
I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it.
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.
I was in my teens and I was going through a bit of a phase, drinking a lot and doing E tablets and getting into street fighting and getting depressed. Then I'd listen to Marley and it lifted me out of it. I'd like to try and do the same for kids, that my music would give them a bit of hope and strength, and they'd know that I was telling the truth and I wouldn't lie to them.
Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.