First Adult Quotes
- The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's… — Harlan Coben
- Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. — Nicholson Baker
- The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay
- A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult… — Junot Diaz
- In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not… — Alison Weir
- Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was… — Robert Reed