Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

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• Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
• 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.
• Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
• I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.
• I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
• Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
• 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.
• I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.
• 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…
• It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
• There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent…
• 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, how…
• 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…
• Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored…
• 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 are…
• A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.
• We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.
• And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices…
• We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them…
• At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

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