“The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.” AgeSufferingMy OwnFantasyWallAdultsImpulseDramaticMidstAbandonedCatastrophe Author:Antoni Tapies
“As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.” YearsKindMovingYoungMy OwnFictionFantasyBearsAdultsScience FictionHistoricalYoung AdultVariousGenreBigotryHistorical FictionSci FiScarResentmentRealismMagical RealismParables Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.” PeopleThinkingBelieveChildrenImportantFilmI BelieveBornLosesMy OwnWalksTakenSeeingMessagesAdultsEmbraceIndividualityIdiosyncrasies Author:Brittany Murphy
“I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults. That's fascinating to me. I've had a lot of very interesting parenting techniques that I've employed with my own daughter that have worked really well, so far.” ThinkingWellsFatherMy OwnInterestingSpecialDaughterAdultsTechniqueFascinatingExploringEmployedVery InterestingSpecial Things Author:Tim Daly
“I was 17 when it was being filmed and so I was at an age where you are learning a lot about yourself. I came out of school to film it, and I hadn't been having a good time in school before that. I get quite shy around big groups of people. If I meet people, especially my peers and people my own age, I always struggle because I've always worked with adults and they have a tendency to molly coddle you a bit when you're the youngest on-set.” PeopleIfsBigsAgeSchoolFilmBitsMy OwnStruggleGroupsAdultsTendenciesGood TimesShyWhere You AreAbout YourselfPeersHaving A Good Time Author:Yasmin Paige
“I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.” IfsWayShouldSelfProblemWishMy OwnOpinionAdultsTeenagerIdiotTeenage Author:Emma Forrest
“Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.” My OwnComfortableAdultsSkinsDown And Author:Brooke Fraser
“On the flip side, I've also had to struggle with saying "yes." Before I did this research and before I had my own breakdown and spiritual awakening around this work, my motto was, "Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing." Which I think is the way the majority of adults in our culture live. Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingLittlesSpiritualCultureSidesMy OwnStruggleResearchAdultsYeahMajorityAwakeningAuthenticityVulnerableUncomfortableVulnerabilityMottoFlipSpiritual AwakeningBreakdownSaying YesMy Motto Author:Brené Brown
“You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.” KnowsWholeFatherMy OwnKnow HowHusbandAdultsDenialChestsComing OutMy Own LifeGreat PowerUnraveling Author:Terry Gross
“As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.” EnoughStoriesYoungFeltMy OwnInterestingPerspectiveAdultsYoung AdultTeenager Author:Zach Condon
“I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.” YearsAgeMovingMy OwnAdultsEuropeIndiaEnglandEightFinanceFranceSwitzerlandFrance And England Author:Indira Gandhi
“Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.” PeopleFeelsMadeEyeMy OwnSpaceHealingIssuesBecomingTerribleGaySummerMy FriendsAdultsOkayAdmireUncomfortableGay People Author:Lena Dunham
“Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.” PeopleWritingDoneFeelingsAbleYoungMy OwnAttitudeFantasyAdultsDeepest Feelings Author:Lloyd Alexander
“It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.” HardChallengesMy OwnMomMarriedAdultsCome UpBeing Married Author:Danielle Steel
“Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.” LooksI CanBookEndsMomentsTodayReadingMy OwnDecisionReaderPagesAdultsBarsAllowingPassagesChaptersCommunionRiteLook At YourselfRite Of PassageBar MitzvahMitzvah Book:So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading Source: So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
“In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.” KnowsRealityRememberMy OwnRichChildhoodTerribleAdultsProfoundMysteriousScareTerrible Things Author:Art Spiegelman
“I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them” KnowsRememberMy OwnChildhoodTerribleAdultsScareTerrible Things Author:Maurice Sendak