If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people,… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
