“I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the ...” — Marlon James Quote

“I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.”

“We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.”

“I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.”

“As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.”

“I adore 'The Apprentice' but I always feel I shouldn't support reality shows when there's so much drama that ought to be being made. I feel particularly guilty enjoying 'Young Apprentice' because you're sneering at adolescents.”

“Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.”