Adult Quote by Louis Sachar

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

— Jesse Andrews

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and…

— P. C. Cast

I didn't write these books specifically for the young-adult audience. I wrote them for me. I don't know why they span the ages so…

— Stephenie Meyer

There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about…

— Lloyd Alexander

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

— Ann Brashares

“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.”

— Oliver Markus

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

— Lois Lowry

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”

— Stephen Colbert

“Teen books are like adult books, without all the bullshit.”

— Anonymous

I don't read many young adult books.

— Kevin Macdonald

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

— William Steig