Book Quote by Bennett Cerf

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

— Neil Gaiman

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

— Jay Asher

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

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't bookstores with…

— Jay Asher

“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

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

— Anonymous

“For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.”

— André Gide

“Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an…

— Tiffini Johnson

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book,…

— Meg Rosoff

If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

— Joseph Heller

[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it…

— Laszlo Radvanyi