Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
People treat people as adults, not children, and they'll make adult decisions - responsible decisions. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
What if airplane pilots said, 'my first three years were a wreck'? We worry about the safety of people at the hands… — Deborah Copy Share Image
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always loved the work. As soon as I finished a movie, the most exciting thing to do was to try to… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion,… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world,… — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid. — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each… — Kathy Valentine Copy Share Image