Author Quote by Anthony Horowitz

“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

I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for…

— Johnny Cash

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

— Karl Kraus

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

— Iain Lawrence

“Many children, early on, acquire a love of places they have never been. Often, such wonder is summarily crushed on the crawl through the…

— Steven Erikson

“Did you know that seventy-five to eighty percent of juvenile offenders can’t read at grade level?” “Really?” This was news to me. “Your world…

— Carolee Dean

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing…

— Robert Cormier

The lives of the young are so tumultuous.

— Amitava Kumar

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

— Anonymous

“A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never…

— Patty Smith

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have…

— Zack de la Rocha