"I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome"
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The subtext is control. A working actor’s schedule is a machine that eats seasons, friendships, even the chance to be boring. “I don’t want to miss that” isn’t about lecture halls; it’s about the rite of passage she imagines everyone else moving through without her. Stewart’s cadence makes the longing feel unscripted, which matters in a culture that treats famous people’s “authenticity” as either a PR product or a punchline.
Then there’s the disarming line: “I want to be a writer. I think that’d be awesome.” “Awesome” is doing strategic work. It’s not prestige language, not the self-mythologizing of the tortured artist. It’s a young person’s word for freedom: to author instead of be authored, to sit behind the camera of her own life. In context - an actress whose public image has often been about being watched, interpreted, misread - the desire to write reads like a quiet rebellion against the roles others assign her.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Stewart, Kristen. (2026, January 16). I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-go-to-college-im-going-to-take-four-87949/
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Stewart, Kristen. "I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-go-to-college-im-going-to-take-four-87949/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-go-to-college-im-going-to-take-four-87949/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




