Writer Quotes by Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

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

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

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

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

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

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

I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson