“Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.” KnowsYearsStoriesSchoolLeftCarHigh SchoolYeahMovedTypicalIdaho Author:Aaron Paul
“I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.” StoriesSchoolLostHigh SchoolMovedSentencesLost Love Author:Tom Perrotta
“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.” WritingRealStoriesSchoolCultureTeamFootballBearsInvolvedHigh SchoolMagazinesFootball TeamPariahs Author:Tom Perrotta
“In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching ever higher for food is, like so many Darwinian explanations of its kind, little more than a post hoc speculation." Hitching is quite correct, but he rebuts a fairy story that Darwin was far too smart to tell - even though the tale later entered our high school texts as a "classic case" nonetheless.” NeedsKindLittlesBookStoriesSchoolCasesHigherSmartHigh SchoolTalesPostsExplanationClassicFairyNecksReachingSpeculationGiraffeFairy Stories Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.” ThinkingTwoDifferentHardWholeStoriesSchoolLevelsCollegeHard WorkHigh SchoolDifferent ThingsNbaComing OutDo The BestTwo Different ThingsGoing To College Author:Dwight Howard
“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
“I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.” WritingYearsTwoStoriesWould BeSchoolStuffClassHigh SchoolMovedTwo YearsDaydreaming Author:Charlie McDermott
“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.” StillsDifferentStoriesWantedSchoolCoursesAudienceStageFrontsTelevisionInvolvedHigh SchoolExcitingTheaterLuxuryGet BackBroadway Author:Dennis Haysbert
“I played soccer growing up, and then high school came along and the football coach came out one day and was like, 'Hey, do you want to kick for us?' I was like, 'Sure, I'll come out and kick one day.' I got moved up to varsity and that's how the story began.” WantStoriesSchoolGrowing UpGrowingFootballOne DayHigh SchoolMovedCoachesHeySoccerNflKicksFootball Coach Author:Kyle Brindza
“I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.” ThinkingWayKindIdeasStoriesKidsSchoolFashionIdentityHigh SchoolVery PopularPygmalion Author:Joseph Altuzarra
“I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.” WritingTryingStoriesSchoolHappenedFitHigh SchoolCollectionsShort StoryEighteen Author:Sarah Dessen
“All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.” StoriesSchoolWishHappenedMinesHigh SchoolSchool Experience Author:Sarah Dessen
“The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.” IdeasStoriesCareSchoolSexStudentsHigh SchoolDon't CareRidiculousVampireI Don't CareIrritatingAbstinenceUninformedHigh School Students Author:Alan Ball
“I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.” ThinkingGivingWritingStoriesAgeSchoolRememberHigh SchoolGradesFourthFifthFifth Grade Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.” ReasonStoriesSeemsRunningKidsSchoolPayAttentionFiguresHorrorHigh SchoolScreensPay AttentionScreamUp And DownIsleMayhemDate Movie Author:Rob Zombie
“I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.” PeopleEndsStoriesSchoolGirlLanguageTeacherViolenceProjectsHigh SchoolSlaveryReactionsLove StoryFamiliarKneesCourageousBrutalityJerkDallasStepfathersHistory TeacherDjangoKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Jamie Foxx
“I don't think we need a critic to negotiate with the audience. People say, "Who are you writing for?" I'm writing for myself but my audience is anybody who knows how to read. I think a story should engage anybody who knows how to read. And I hope that my stories do, maybe on a different level for more sophisticated readers than, say, a high school kid, but still a story has got to grab you. That's why we read it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsShouldWritingStillsDifferentStoriesKidsSchoolLevelsAudienceKnow HowReaderHigh SchoolCriticsSophisticatedDifferent Levels Author:T.C. Boyle
“What I remember most from reporting both the stories are the women. Going into the first piece, I didn't have a super fixed idea about abortion. I'd helped a high school friend get to a doctor once. I always assumed that what a woman did was up to her. But I could also see the pro-life point of view that human life should be sacred in whatever gestational form.” ShouldFirstsHumansIdeasStoriesSchoolRememberFormViewsPiecesHigh SchoolDoctorsSacredPoint Of ViewHuman LifeFixedAbortionPro LifeSchool FriendsHigh School Friends Author:John H Richardson
“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.” WayStoriesSchoolTogetherSawsCollegeHigh SchoolAdolescenceUnclesAcademyBrooklynLeading MeWilsonReeds Author:Aaron Brookner
“Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.” StoriesSchoolAmericaNew YorkLuckyHigh SchoolWinnerPrizeGrandfatherMy GrandfatherNobelNobel PrizeBronxNobel Prize Winners Author:Lewis Schiff
“It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive.” StoriesSchoolOrderCoursesWhiteGoneFiveTeacherHigh SchoolSeasonsCancerFamiliarSuperiorsCooksGradesEggsChemistrySchemesNestsMeekTerminalMethamphetamineTerminal CancerWalter WhiteChemistry Teachers Author:Bryan Cranston
“If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter. It doesn't cost money to write. It costs money to make art. So I would just write. I would hand out stories in the classes in high school. And the teacher would say, "Whatever you do, don't become a writer."” IfsWantNeedsWritingArtStoriesHandsSchoolClassTeacherPiecesCostPaperHigh SchoolPencilsTypewritersManuals Author:Tama Janowitz
“I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.” LooksKindStoriesSchoolChristianCommunityChurchAnswersGroupsYouthGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolRadicalSundayFellowshipFreshmanSunday SchoolChristian CommunityBible Stories Author:Jeremy Lin
“I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.” KindStoriesSchoolCareersPiecesWrittenStudentsHigh SchoolHollywoodNovelistsShort StoryPlaywrightStory WritersHigh School Students Author:George R. R. Martin
“Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.” StoriesAgeSchoolRomanceDramaElementsHigh SchoolDressesDancingTensionComing Of AgePromLimos Author:Adora Svitak
“Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.” GivingWritingSelfCharacterStoriesSchoolFormNamesClassWatchesCreativeJokesHigh SchoolDatingComicGirlfriendSense Of HumorContemptReally GreatCreative WritingHandicappedDating SomeoneAnagramsOld Girlfriend Author:Lorrie Moore
“If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.” IfsStoriesKidsSchoolChanceSonHigh SchoolDoctorsTestsTendenciesBiologyAfflictionAfghan Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.” MenSaidStoriesHandsInspirationSchoolYoungUsedBlackWhiteBoysSawsFocusHigh SchoolNegativeCornersBoardsYoung ManBroadsProfessorsSheetsDots Author:Kofi Annan