When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
There are a lot of valid reasons for wanting to feel safer. But hiding from pain or perceived threats behind a wall of weight is not the way to go about it. First of all, being a fat adult will never change the circumstances of anyone's childhood. Th...
It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belong to the same species, and therefore understand each ...
We have created a culture of reading poverty in which a vicious cycle of aliteracy has the potential to devolve into illiteracy for many students. By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning to love reading, we are creating a...
The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was ...
Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience consciously. This problem has been around since the beginning of time, but it is especially acute in early childhood ...
There will come a time when a person you most likely pushed out through your vagina and nursed from your nipples, whose bottom you wiped, and whose snot and spit you cleaned up over several sleep-starved years will apprehend you with a mixture of bor...
...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.
I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.
Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.
Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.
Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.
More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.
