Ya Author Quotes

#1. There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.

Harold Klemp

#2. This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.

Heather Demetrios

#3. You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.

Heather Demetrios

#4. At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

Eric Walters

#5. Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

Vince Staples

#6. Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it!

Debra L. Hartmann

#7. 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

#8. When you have children, your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

Jo Brand

#9. Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn't hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile.

Kathy Parks

#10. You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.

Heather Demetrios

#11. Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

Deb Caletti

#12. Somehow, the pain and rage and confusion of the past eighteen years dissolves until all that is left is this one perfect moment; unscripted, unedited, it's ours and ours alone.

Heather Demetrios

#13. He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint.

Heather Demetrios

#14. There's a word for an author who doesn't give up ... published.

J.A. Konrath

#15. Hate is a lot like love. It's warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.

Heather Demetrios

#16. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.

Heather Demetrios

#17. Natalie, who was the author of a series of wildly successful Hunger Games meets Gossip Girl YA books about a clique of girls at a postapocalyptic prep school who have to simultaneously fight for popularity and for the survival of the planet - hadn

Doree Shafrir

#18. It's not easy balancing a career, a family and a healthy outlook on life, which is why I don't.

Alex Bosworth

#19. I don't like seeing myself on camera." But that's not it
that sounds shallow, like I'm worried I'll look fat or something. "It's like somebody is walking on my grave. TV immortalizes you. The episodes are what my family would watch if I died.

Heather Demetrios

#20. Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you are clearly 'different' and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!

Kailin Gow

#21. If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.

Heather Demetrios

#22. Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now ...

Belle Whittington

#23. Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic ... you! As soon as you let doubt creep in
you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.

C.Toni Graham

#24. The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

Heather Demetrios

#25. Even Mom doesn't understand how being in front of a camera all the time twists and warps you. How one second it makes you feel unbelievably alive and the next publicly strips you down until all that's left is one big question mark.

Heather Demetrios

#26. I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

David Lagercrantz