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You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie. -- Kristen Stewart
But wishes are only granted in fairy tales. -- Simone Elkeles
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. -- Alison Bechdel
I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen! -- Nikki Sixx
I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading 'Gossip Girl.' -- Cecily von Ziegesar
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade. -- Kevin Mitnick
I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain. -- Arthur Bradford
The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person. -- Peter Tork
Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s. -- Tina Fey
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language. -- Margaret Mahy
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do. -- Beth Moore
I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say they support socialism than do capitalism, the word socialism doesn't have a lot of meaning in this country. -- Cynthia Kauffman
I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult. -- Valerie Jarrett
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government. -- Ellen Goodman
The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific -- Taylor Caldwell
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. -- Graham Nash
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. -- John Green
I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut North reminded me how great it is. I started out in theater. I trained in theater and then I kind of fell into film and TV. I want to work with interesting artists, talented actors, talented directors, and talented scripts. Not necessarily leading roles. -- Max Irons
Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost. -- Michael Bloomberg
I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. -- Mal Peet
Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. -- Oliver Markus
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors. -- Patton Oswalt
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
Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity. -- Jennifer Armintrout
All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.' -- Jennifer Armentrout
There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books. -- Garth Nix
When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The Babysitter's Club' over to Stephen King. His books were big and fat and they seemed important. I eventually worked my way through most of the shelf, but 'It' is the one that stuck with me. -- Erin Morgenstern
Once we were young, now we are adult. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous. -- Ned Vizzini
I turned down one of the big young adult franchises. -- Douglas Booth
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. -- Martha Beck
Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them! -- Parker J. Palmer
People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. -- Lev Grossman
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology. -- Dian Fossey
I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult. -- Dani Shapiro
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. -- R. L. Stine
I'm writing my next book under a pseudonym. It will be Mark Twain's best young adult romance." -- Benson Bruno
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be. -- Ethan Hawke
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films. -- Baz Luhrmann
I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. -- Gretchen Rubin
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. -- Caitlin Flanagan
Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series. -- Kate Winslet
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. -- Ann Brashares
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. -- Elizabeth Olsen
I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked. -- Leah Raeder
I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay! -- Simone Elkeles
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. -- Sherman Alexie
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. -- Ira Sachs
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. -- Sherman Alexie
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. -- Simone Elkeles
Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen. -- Louis Sachar
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population. -- William J. Clinton
I read Pushing the Limit and Dare You To by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now Im a believer. -- Lori Foster
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers. -- Maggie Stiefvater
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. -- Sherman Alexie
I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I'm a believer. -- Lori Foster
When you're young, you say what you feel.When you're adult, you speak what you think.When you grow old, you listen to what nature says. -- Toba Beta
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional. -- Richard Paul Evans
When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young. -- Vestal McIntyre
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own. -- Pam Brown
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. -- Rodman Philbrick
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. -- Richard Peck
I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California. -- Debi Mazar
The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction. -- Randy Alcorn
I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years. -- Blake Judd
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
Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take. -- Jami Attenberg
I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. -- Graham Nelson
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
I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most. -- James Howe
When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows. -- Mary E. Pearson
As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story. -- Zach Condon
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying. -- Lev Grossman
What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience. -- Carrie Vaughn
We believe there is no fundamental structural changes in the young-adult market. There are, of course, fashion changes, and the success of each brand depends on the accuracy with which it predicts those changes. -- Richard Hayne
I believe in national service, I believe that every young adult citizen should do two years of national service. Not necessarily to be deployed, but to understand teamwork, responsibility and mixing with different people. -- Robert Irvine
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written. -- Michelle Gagnon
I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed. -- Gia Coppola

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