Top 33 Teen Books Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Teen Books

#1. The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Ann Brashares

#2. Teen books are like adult books, without all the bullshit.

Jack Martin

#3. out of nowhere, into the here

Neil Gaiman

#4. People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline ... The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.

Jennifer E. Smith

#5. To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.

Paul Valery

#6. Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

Priya Ardis

#7. I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen ... that's huge. It awes me.

Sarah Dessen

#8. If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled.

Lynn Dove

#9. Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

Tamora Pierce

#10. I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

Kami Garcia

#11. My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.

Emilyann Girdner

#12. Hearing my brother's words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss - wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#13. My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

Terri Windling

#14. Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#15. Whereas some people's attitude suggested that perhaps they knew something you didn't, Mrs. Whiting's implied that she knew everything you didn't. She alone had been paying attention, so it was her duty to bring you at least partially up to speed.

Richard Russo

#16. Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Chester A. Arthur

#17. Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

Kim Edwards

#18. Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

Richard P. Denney

#19. But it wasn't really empty. Because here in the Overlook things just went on and on.

Stephen King

#20. Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.

Carrie Vaughn

#21. I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

Phil Collins

#22. It was the desolate terror of a man who knows that fate has abandoned him, and death's already inside, stretching and swelling and filling up the life-space that used to be his. It

Gregory David Roberts

#23. That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#24. Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.

Jaime Reed

#25. Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

Norman Granz

#26. To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

John Allison

#27. I didn't even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged yellow police tape tied to some branches, dancing in the wind. It was as if the tape was waving, welcoming me back to place where I would have died.

Richard P. Denney