“I am eating this noise like mouthfuls of freezing, glittering fog. I am filling with it. I am using it as energy. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you're going.”

English journalist, broadcaster, and author

Caitlin Moran is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author. She writes for The Times and is known for her columns and her work across print and broadcast media. At The Times, she writes two columns each week, one for the Saturday Magazine and another satirical Friday column called “Celebrity Watch”. Her work is rooted in journalism, with a strong satirical edge in her regular writing.