Adult Quote by Eleanor Catton

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of…

— Chris Abani

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

— Lorrie Moore

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max…

— Chris Bohjalian

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

“So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading, hoping with…

— Chris Colfer

“When an author took the time and trouble to choose exactly the right words and arrange them in the right order, there was a…

— Sophie Hannah

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might…

— Marie Rutkoski

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened…

— Nikki Grimes

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

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be…

— Richard Paul Evans

'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable…

— Rick Riordan

“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature…

— Lloyd Alexander

I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark…

— Lev Grossman

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even…

— Rick Riordan

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be…

— Katherine Paterson