When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.
I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.
When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.