Quotes of: Young-adult Keyword

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Alison Bechdel

As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years...

The Path to Power

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

Catherine Jinks

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

Nikki Sixx

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Martha Beck

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Katherine Paterson

When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.

Gerald Chertavian

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

Eleanor Catton

[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)

The Mister Rogers' Parenting Book: Helping To Understand Your Young Child

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly ...

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Apparently, philosophy persists, even though less obviously and less insistently than once. If John has trimmed his interests to conform to the expectations of the adult world, that's a shame. But if he has simply moved on to other interests, that's ...

Philosophy and the Young Child

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

Nancy Kerrigan

I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked.

Unteachable

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

P. C. Cast

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

Kevin Mitnick

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

Richard Peck

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

R. L. Stine

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Sherman Alexie

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

Sherman Alexie

You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay with them. It is great to be part of an eight-year-old's world.

Anthony Horowitz

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.

Lev Grossman