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  • Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous. -- Ned Vizzini
  • I turned down one of the big young adult franchises. -- Douglas Booth
  • I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults. -- Candace Bushnell
  • Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. -- Martha Beck
  • How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike. -- Jim McKay
  • People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
  • I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence. -- Chris Eigeman
  • Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history. -- Ruben Hinojosa
  • Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. -- Mal Peet
  • I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult. -- Dani Shapiro
  • My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. -- Lev Grossman
  • It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work. -- Vint Cerf
  • The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. -- Ann Brashares
  • Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way. -- Raymond Arroyo
  • 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
  • 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
  • I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience. -- Paul Di Filippo
  • Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience. -- Melissa Rosenberg
  • 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
  • C. diff can sometimes be life-threatening, even in healthy young adults. -- J. Thomas LaMont
  • The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity. -- Nelson Rodrigues
  • Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones. -- Adam Fletcher
  • The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults -- Dennis Prager
  • We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. -- Gayle Rubin
  • Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror. -- Terry Pratchett
  • The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. -- Elliot W. Eisner
  • Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children. -- Francis Crick
  • I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. -- Eleanor Catton
  • In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. -- Charles J. Shields
  • The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults -- Tite Kubo
  • When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young. -- Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira
  • When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. -- Alison Bechdel
  • No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids. -- Terry Pratchett
  • A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. -- Edward Abbey
  • I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
  • I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. -- Catherine Jinks
  • Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution. -- Ken Ham
  • Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are. -- Laura Kreitzer
  • Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful. -- Jeff Myers
  • It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults. -- Darren Shan
  • I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults. -- Louis Sachar
  • I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers. -- Dave Barry
  • I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun. -- Brian Bosworth
  • I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read. -- Katherine Paterson
  • If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents. -- Wendy Mogel
  • I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life. -- Katherine Paterson
  • When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution. -- Gerald Chertavian
  • As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully. -- Anthony Browne
  • In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics. -- Eliot Spitzer
  • Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future. -- Ron Lewis
  • At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young. -- Margaret Mahy
  • I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with. -- Veronica Roth
  • It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect. -- H. L. Mencken
  • 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
  • A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us. -- Adora Svitak
  • The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family. -- Florence Welch
  • I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was desperately in need of some explanation. -- Francis Collins
  • If fantasy is done well, it has both serious content in a literary fashion and is a really good read as well - and children and young adults won't suffer anything else. -- Isobelle Carmody
  • I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest. -- William Sleator
  • 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
  • I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation. -- Matt Gonzalez
  • I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me believe that along the way I must have done something right. -- Jodi Picoult
  • There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era. -- Scott Yanow
  • I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them. -- C. J. Box
  • This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life - an unflinching, honest portrayal of young adults. A seamless and impressive debut. -- Anne Frasier
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