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Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.