Controversy Quote by Chuck D

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

— Shahrukh Khan

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

I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media, and their voice is there, people can actually cut…

— Craig David

I feel that it's vitally important to write and talk about people struggling with young people's beliefs, young people not being listened to and…

— Declan McKenna

Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

— Anita Nair

“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

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

— Edward de Bono

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

— Susan Jacoby

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they…

— Yukio Mishima

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the…

— Robin Wasserman

When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain…

— Autre Ne Veut

I find young people talk about what they want to do, which is great because you get to form the words, but its also…

— Abbi Jacobson