Young Adult Book Quotes

#1. I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.

Jacqueline Woodson

#2. You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a book that you can't in a similarly targeted movie.

Ned Vizzini

#3. I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.

Michael Scott

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

R.L. Stine

#5. You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.

Sully Tarnish

#6. And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. Yeah, Horemheb, you are under my command once more. You might be the pharaoh, but I am Tutankhamun! - Tut Reborn by Cyci Cade

Cyci Cade

#8. We're seastnan, we live to protect, sometimes we die and I can't think of a better way to go than fighting for someone I love.

Caroline Greyling

#9. His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi's kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy.

Lani Wendt Young

#10. Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace
grace you can reach for.

Elizabeth Scott

#11. His mind buzzed, excited by new possibilities."
About Egg, Book 1 "Making it

Jamie Scallion

#12. With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just write one book, then another, and then another, because the young adults who wrote me told me that they wanted to read more.

Sharon Draper

#13. Ever since I could read, I've wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don't think this is worth writing about. But this book isn't for you. It's for me.

Daniel Willey

#14. Most people ignore what's right before their eyes. They believe they see, but oftentimes only view what they want.

Kerri Maniscalco

#15. My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad.

Rick Yancey

#16. Books are the only things worth stealing.

Sully Tarnish

#17. My old man tells me every chance he gets I'm "style over substance" and that I've never done anything of value in my life. I'm fifteen. What does he expect? Being "cool as" is the only thing anyone cares about."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it

Jamie Scallion

#18. Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA

Mirella Muffarotto

#19. Phin, history is filled with false realities. If we stopped at what we know to be true, we'll never discover that it's actually false. The Earth would still be flat. -Ethan Cottington, Memoir of a Mermaid Book #1

Adrianna Stepiano

#20. Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.

Anita Silvey

#21. The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

Brian Joyce

#22. He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.

Katherine Paterson

#23. I could had stopped or side-stepped her, only I hadn't wanted to, so I didn't. My mind worked like that at times, do or not, no middle.

Sela Ordaz

#24. There are countless reasons for reading, but when you're young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

Michael Cart

#25. I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that?

Amalie Howard

#26. My words shall open the portal to thee.
My words shall reveal for thy eyes to see.
My words shall forewarn what is yet to be.
To find the way you must follow your heart,
Any other path shall tear us apart.
From Eleventh Elementum

J.L. Bond

#27. If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!)

Sarah J. Pepper

#28. Flanked by his personal guardsmen, Emperor Gevalen walked toward me, never letting go of me with his eyes. It was thrilling and terrifying all at once.

Julie B. Campbell

#29. 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

#30. It's funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you've always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Brian Joyce

#31. What's wrong with all black?"
Egg - Book 1 "Making it

Jamie Scallion

#32. My death granted immortality.
With one look, I knew he'd be my undoing ... Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

Sarah J. Pepper

#33. I'm not wearing no make-up!"
Burt - Book 1 "Making it

Jamie Scallion

#34. The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don't entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it's impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it.

Kristin Cashore

#35. It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.

Milly Silver

#36. Curiouser and curiouser, he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.

Danielle Ellison

#37. You're not doing a good job of selling me this dumb fantasy. I'm not climbing into the back of your van if I have to be Robin. I'm Batman. That's how these things work.

John Kerry

#38. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Brittany Hawes

#39. You're easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

Amy Engel

#40. No stone was left unturned in the unearthing of musical masterpieces."
About Egg, Book 1 "Making it

Jamie Scallion

#41. When sober, which he hadn't been for well over a week, Burt thought about Double B, and what it might be like to be a real father, to wake up with him in the morning, to watch him grow, to get to know the little soul."
Book 2 "Having it

Jamie Scallion

#42. She told me I couldn't just put on a leather jacket and think I was rock'n'roll, I had to live it."
Burt about Bex, Book 1 "Making it

Jamie Scallion

#43. So young and yet already carrying a great burden on her shoulders. Do not worry, my dear, I will make sure you can protect yourself and others. Because you are our hope ... sweet, darling ... Arima.

Stephanie Beerden

#44. You are my star in this dark, dark world that we inhabit.

Misty Daniel

#45. He had something in him, how he walked, how he carried himself with that carelessness, he wasn't my type entirely, if I ever had a type of guy before him.

Sela Ordaz

#46. I will not give up. I must not fail."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it

Jamie Scallion

#47. No god will spare you forgiveness for loving me.

Liam Levi

#48. Proud to announce that Esfir Is Alive has been selected as a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in Young Adult Fiction.

Andrea Simon

#49. You are more beautiful at first light then most girls are dressed and glamorous."
Dana Christy

Dana Christy

#50. Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more.
(About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)

Stephen Noce

#51. 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

#52. All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

Ann Marie Frohoff

#53. I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.

E.A. De Graaf

#54. He tries not to think about The Core ... but he couldn't deny it ... they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children

Natasha Larry

#55. A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Jane Yolen

#56. 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

#57. I stared at my lap. I wished I were confident, I wished I were brave. I wished he didn't scare me. But the more he spoke the less I wanted to look away, and the more I did.

Rose Fall

#58. 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

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

Lev Grossman

#60. You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. 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

#62. Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian.
Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.

Kami Garcia

#63. I won't make it that easy for you to find fault in me. You just may have to come to terms with the fact that I really am a nice guy, and you like being around me."
A Hearts Salvation

Dana Christy

#64. Angel I've loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. It's only ever been you. It will always be you, marry me?

Kirsty Moseley

#65. Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

Oliver Markus