Books Quote by Lois Lowry

“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

It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities of a…

— Robert Cormier

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

— Judy Blume

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of…

— Matt Haig

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would…

— John Boyne

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing…

— Nelson Mandela

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

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

— Tamora Pierce

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of…

— Morris Gleitzman

There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so.…

— Katie Price