Younger Reader Quotes

#1. There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.

Michael Scott

#2. I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.

Marlon James

#3. In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

Pepper Schwartz

#4. To lose sensibility, to see what one sees,
As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift,
To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone,
As if the paradise of meaning ceased
To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.

Wallace Stevens

#5. Miracles do happen. You just admitted to a mistake. What was your mistake? Not f-cking me sooner?'
'It was my mistaken-' he turned and met her eyes '-thinking we had all the time in the world.

Tiffany Reisz

#6. The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

Isaac Asimov

#7. I'm imagining the reader, whom I conjure as an aspiring artist much like my own younger, less grizzled self, to whom I hope to impart a little starch and inspiration and prime, a little, with some hard-knocks wisdom and a few tricks of the trade.

Steven Pressfield

#8. For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

Lisa Lucas

#9. Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it - And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.

Laurence Sterne

#10. During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

Dionne Warwick

#11. Telling over to myself/ how beauty never dies/ but lies apart/ among the aborigines/ of art/ and far above the battlefields/ of love
pg. 23// // A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#12. Your destiny is shaped in your moments of decision.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#13. Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you.
Leo

Lisa Kleypas

#14. My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

Chuck Palahniuk