Top 100 Adult Books Quotes
#1. I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.
Chris Wooding
#2. It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
R.L. Stine
#3. Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties
Lloyd Alexander
#4. I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.
James Howe
#5. Teen books are like adult books, without all the bullshit.
Jack Martin
#6. I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.
Gail Carriger
#7. I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
Erin Morgenstern
#8. We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining, said Mrs. Bunny.
Polly Horvath
#9. There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
Candace Camp
#10. What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.
Carrie Vaughn
#11. Simon Stiegler, Literatur, Belletristik, Crime, Psychology, Philosophy, Art, children, Adult, books, author,Autor
Simon Stiegler
#12. As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
Gail Carriger
#13. The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
Ann Brashares
#14. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.
Neil Gaiman
#15. With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
James Patterson
#16. My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
Jerry Spinelli
#17. Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive things. You can have affection and hope in children's books, but that is out of fashion in adult fiction.
Lloyd Alexander
#18. I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.
Joan Didion
#19. Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
Ned Vizzini
#20. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#21. When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.
Nina Jacobson
#22. 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.
Richard K. Morgan
#23. I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.
John Connolly
#24. Now that you're here, now that they know you exist, you'll never be free again. Ever. We're prisoners to our books, our fates planned long before we were born. You're no different than us. Fight your fate all you want, but deep down you know it's true.
Angela Parkhurst
#25. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL
Michelle M. Pillow
#26. Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.
Sid Fleischman
#27. Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.
Sin Mils
#28. It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
Louis Sachar
#29. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
Brittany Hawes
#30. I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.
Philip Kerr
#31. Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe
Mike Dooley
#32. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen
Mike Dooley
#33. Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
David Walliams
#34. the more I get to know Ray, the more I hate him. The bastard is rude, crude and lewd. He's not a good dude. Yep, Dr. Seuss could write a series of adult rhyming books about that creep.
Elle Kennedy
#35. The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn't achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who's reading aloud - it's the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
Mem Fox
#36. The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#38. Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.
Simone Elkeles
#39. When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.
Sully Tarnish
#40. One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.
Andrew Kreisberg
#41. To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
William Steig
#42. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed
Gayle Forman
#43. Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of a book. You explore new lands, meet new people, feel new emotions, and are no longer the same person you were one word prior to reading it.
Martha Sweeney
#45. I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two.
Dave Pirner
#46. Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!
Nikki Grimes
#47. One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.
Darren Shan
#48. If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.
Peter Jackson
#51. The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become
Sheridan Hay
#52. Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.
E.B. White
#53. When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
Alison Bechdel
#54. Look, I'm the DD tonight, but I'm offering to be more than just your driver. I'll be your bodyguard, and your bartender, and most importantly, your friend. I promise to look out for you tonight, Wellsy.
Elle Kennedy
#55. I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.
Louis Sachar
#56. A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
Jane Yolen
#57. Remember, there were dragons long before men came into the world. Why, it was none other than The Great Dragons of Yore who invented the idea of knighthood. Yes, yes, that's right! Dragons had knights, Kings, princesses and queens long before men crawled out of the muck.
Sully Tarnish
#58. I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
Lois Lowry
#59. What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.
Laini Taylor
#60. People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. Frank Baum
#61. Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?
Paul Cude
#62. I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.
Bella James
#63. I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
R.L. Stine
#64. I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.
Seth
#66. I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.
John Boyne
#67. My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
Lev Grossman
#68. The grim and gritty '90s thing is actually a teenage idea of what adult content is.
Jamie McKelvie
#69. There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
Garth Nix
#70. It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.
Erin Bow
#71. Personally, I believe "Young Adult" to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who's not quite an adult/Isn't really boring.
Shannon Hale
#72. I believe reading books is one of the best ways to gain real empathy for people different from ourselves, and helping boys develop empathy for girls is a cause worth fighting for.
Shannon Hale
#73. When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.
Terry Hayes
#74. Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
John Green
#75. All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#76. Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
Lemony Snicket
#77. There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
Phyllis McGinley
#78. Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.
Oliver Markus
#79. Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.
John Green
#80. So he earns your undying love by reading a book under a tree?" Cole said dryly. "Why didn't I ever try that approach? I like books and trees.
Brodi Ashton
#82. Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
Mark Haddon
#83. We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a book because it's good for us. We read because it is fun.
Jackie French
#84. Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.
Felicia Johnson
#85. After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn't stop. It changes. And it changes me.
Caroline George
#86. I couldn't suppress a smile. It was inconceivable that I was here, in a place as extraordinary as the fantasy books Sophie loved. Maybe...just maybe those stories are based on a measure of truth. Maybe one day I'd write our story.
Heather L. L. FitzGerald
#87. I wonder if the folks at Christian books will fire you when they find out about your devil powers-John Gramm
Natasha Larry
#88. I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.
T.S. Wieland
#89. I'd rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can't see. And that's not ignorance. That's just hope.
Caroline George
#90. I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or cut off or ignore! I AM CURRENCY! - Nevel Walker
Whitney L. Grady
#91. With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.
John Boyne
#92. If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There's not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.
Caroline George
#93. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.
Betsy Cornwell
#94. In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
Bruce Coville
#95. Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
Margaret Mahy
#96. You won't find the tales I bear in any books ... My tales are from the Moon Realm. - Ebb Autumn
Richard Due
#97. In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult art seems to diminish our lives rather than add to them, children's literature insists on the values of humanity and humaneness.
Lloyd Alexander
#98. I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.
Nicola Yoon
#99. Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.
Nicola Yoon
#100. 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.
Rick Riordan
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