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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural.…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

— 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…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson