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" Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer. "

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" Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy. "

Mal Peet

Old Man

Grind

Hair

" Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them. "

" I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I've done, and I've gotten to do some great supernatural stuff - 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Gates' before that - so it's nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year. "

" Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences. "

" To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. "

" When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson. "

" As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen. "

" I was considered chubby as a teen. "

" History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar. "

Mal Peet

Burger

Traffic

" Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. "

" The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers. "

" It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes. "

" I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years. "

" I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it. "

" Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do. "

" Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces. "

" I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with. "

" Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that. "

" When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen. "

" I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past. "

" I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark. "

" We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. "

" I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of. "

Lauren Oliver

Connections

Teen

" If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.' "

" You've got to grow up sometime. "

Winona Ryder

Teen

You

" My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing. "

" Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. "

" I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them. "

Grace Helbig

Teen

Know

" I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go. "

Mal Peet

You

Fantasy

" Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. "