Adult Quote by Chris Van Allsburg Download Open image “I'm not surprised that my books appeal to adults.” — Chris Van Allsburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adult Adults Appeal Appeal Adults Books Books Appeal Surprised Surprised Books
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing… — John Green Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig Copy Share Image
Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger… — Jesse Sheidlower Copy Share Image
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along. — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr.… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate. — George Murray Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
“To love was a privilege not afforded to those of us born in these trying times when survival was never guaranteed. We were products… — Molly X. Chang Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him." Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“There's such an intimate kind of beauty in the act of listening to music being created right in front of your eyes, watching the… — M.C. Frank Copy Share Image
Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you… — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
