Age Quote by David Mitchell

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old…

— Elizabeth Moon

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of…

— John McCain

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

— Martin Luther

J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.

— Jamie Parker

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian…

— Michael Morpurgo

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among…

— Harold Acton

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

— Hannah More

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even…

— Lev Grossman

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

— Edward Abbey

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment