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I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

Being a teenager is hard.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.