Away Quote by Anne Enright

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea…

— Soman Chainani

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

— Paul Auster

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

— Judy Blume

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the…

— Judy Blume

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing…

— Jenny Han

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

— Jesse Andrews

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

— Wallace Stegner

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing…

— Nelson Mandela

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or…

— Laura Z. Hobson

“It sometimes strikes me that there is only one taboo left in young adult literature. By and large, no one complains any more when…

— M.T. Anderson