Books Quote by Julia Alvarez

“The authors we classified as villains, detractors, and bad role models for our children are part of the educational curriculum. Freethinkers and the gutsy…

— Julia Ann Charpentier

“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you…

— Chad Harbach

“I like authors who experiment with narrative and delve into very specific conditions within their characters in order to expose universal truths about humanity.…

— Amanda Knox

So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of…

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation…

— Lois Lowry

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

The switch that I'd like to throw on is the one that says, "Look, you're a human being whose mind is every bit as…

— George Saunders

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only…

— Bennett Cerf

I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful…

— Andrew Gross

Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful…

— Andrew Gross

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa