Adults Quote by Doug Fields

In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults…

— Ellen Hopkins

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age,…

— Lois Lowry

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that…

— Jason Katims

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males

“Part of the post-apocalyptic, dystopian trend is that it seems to go hand in hand with young adult novels. Maybe that's because it's not…

— Julianna Baggott

Teenagers: The most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children and expected to act like adults.

— Anonymous

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

I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools…

— Patricia McCormick

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the…

— Laura van den Berg

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

— Judy Blume

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

— David Crabb

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow