Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?
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.
...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.
