Youth Fiction Quotes

#1. Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

Pamela Sargent

#2. The Squire's life was quite as idle as his sons', but it was a fiction kept up by himself and his contemporaries in Raveloe that youth was exclusively the period of folly, and that their aged wisdom was constantly in a state of endurance mitigated by sarcasm.

George Eliot

#3. Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

Roger Ebert

#4. One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

Daniel Amory

#5. Was he he handsome?" she asked with a sly smirk.
"Very. He is still, I think."
"The devil, they say, goes about in finery."
"And if you believe Beelzebub is as cunning as he is attractive, then I think we have found him.

Nancy E. Turner

#6. Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

Samuel Snoek-Brown

#7. I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case.

Emily Tomko

#8. They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#9. Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

Tim Cook

#10. Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.

Rajneesh

#11. The simplicity of youth is mesmerizing to me. Maybe because I didn't know it long enough."
London Drake
"They All fall down

Nick Moccia

#12. Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.

Darren Star

#13. And is it any wonder that the poor woman broke out into fairies when she had been deprived of any fiction in her youth?

Kerry Greenwood

#14. A brief life burns brightly.

Stephen Baxter

#15. Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?

Donald Jeffries

#16. Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Robert Charles Wilson

#17. It's not that I'm apolitical ... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.

Susan Isaacs

#18. Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Cassandra Clare

#19. It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

John Pipkin

#20. To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished.

Nancy B. Brewer

#21. Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#23. Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.

Joyce Carol Oates

#24. I don't think I've ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don't think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend."
"How would you introduce her?" I asked.
"I'm just going to say her name," he said.

Daniel Amory

#25. I started writing songs when I was a little kid actually. I wrote a song about Catwoman and I wrote a song about Leprechauns, as a little kid.

Bonnie McKee

#26. A time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

Jennifer Stone

#27. Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

Trevanian

#28. Needs are stronger than liking.

Ravindra Shukla

#29. That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

Patrick Modiano

#30. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

Virginia Woolf