I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles… — Susan Patron Copy Share Image
I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
I have a very eclectic group of fans. I have fans that love me for me and who have never even seen… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
One of the things that defines YA is a really strong narrative. Adults love YA because, at the end of the day,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Young citizens on the verge of becoming adults deserve a real say in the world they will inherit. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
Sophie is asking mum ‘Why am I NOT a doll NOT an adult NOT a boy NOT a giraffe?’ It’s so easy… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.' — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. — Norman Macleod Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history. — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
