Young Adult Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Smart, America, Voting

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

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Adults, Groups

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• 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

  Believe, Book, Character

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• 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

  Teenage, Cancer, Caring

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• 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.

  David Levithan

  Wise, Writing, Mean

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• I like to allow young readers to keep writing in their heads after they've finished reading. Not to leave the ending too open, but enough so they can imagine: What does this mean? My young adult books usually end in a far more obscure way.

  Amy King

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Nice, Acceptance, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing and cell phones and boys and clothes. it's kind of sad, if you think about it. like there's no continuity in people at all. like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. maybe even a less happy person. maybe even a worse one.

  Lauren Oliver

  Kids, Thinking, Boys

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• [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

  New Beginnings, Adults, Ever After

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• The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

  Ann Brashares

  Book, Adults, Sophisticated

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• I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

  Margaret Mahy

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

  Girl, Fun, Lying

  "'Gossip Girl' Creator Reveals Reality of 'Young Adult'" by Cecily von Ziegesar, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  Dale Archer

  Real, Past, College

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• 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

  Thinking, Adults, Literature

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• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Divorce, Mean, Independence

  "What Girls Want" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.theatlantic.com. December, 2008.

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• 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 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Fall, Grandparent

  "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

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• When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

  O.R. Melling

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

  Dani Shapiro

  Kids, Television Commercials, Adults

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• 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

  Teacher, Writing, Long

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• Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

  Terry Eagleton

  Educational, Men, Adults

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are desperately seeking for answers to the problems which afflict mankind, it is an "iron rod" as a safe guide along the straight path on the way to eternal life, amidst the strange and devious roadways that would eventually lead to destruction and to the ruin of all that is "virtuous, lovely, or of good report."

  Ann M. Dibb

  Frustration, Men, Iron

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• 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

  Teenager, Swings, Names

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• I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Adults, Literature

  "I’m Y.A., and I’m O.K". Interview with Margo Rabb, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 2008.

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• 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

  Past, Shoes, Adults

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