Books For Young Adults Quotes

#1. I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

Ellen Hopkins

#2. So does this mean we're officially young adults now?" I asked her.
"I don't know. I've already been reading those kinds of books for a few years."
"Uh-oh, does this mean I'm still a baby? I really love EVERYONE POOPS.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#3. I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

Garrison Keillor

#4. How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Charles Bukowski

#5. 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

#6. When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

O.R. Melling

#7. Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

Brian Tracy

#8. I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals, to depression, to wanting to die. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. This is not who I am.

Except, of course, it was. It was all there was left to be.

Alexis Hall

#9. 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

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

Eleanor Catton

#11. I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

David Duchovny

#12. I have my meals delivered ... you know what I like? Chicken and rice ... But the problem with being a defensive lineman is, if we get out of hand with our eating, we balloon up to, like, 300-some pounds. So I really got to watch what I eat.

Hugh Douglas

#13. One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

Dan Castellaneta

#14. 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

#15. Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.

Laura Kreitzer

#16. There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.

Kevin Outlaw

#17. I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.

Stan Lee

#18. History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

Jim Murphy

#19. "What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

Chris Hadfield

#20. I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

Noomi Rapace

#21. 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

#22. My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

Lev Grossman

#23. I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.

Sharon Osbourne

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

Alison Bechdel

#25. After Max's outburst at lunchtime, he steered clear of me the rest of the day, and after school, I rode out to Freak Lake to think. The leaves had long passed the bright orange phase and faded into brown, and the grass on the side of the road was stiff and dead.

Dan Wells

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

Catherine Jinks

#27. Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Steven Pressfield