Age Quote by Matthew Desmond

'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.

— Colson Whitehead

The readership for 'Sag Harbor' was different from people who'd read me before - it was linear and realistic, not as strange as 'The…

— Colson Whitehead

I try to keep each different book different from the last. So 'Sag Harbor' is very different from 'Apex Hides the Hurt;' 'The Intuitionist,'…

— Colson Whitehead

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

— Alison Bechdel

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

— Kim Harrison

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting.

— Justine Larbalestier

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

I read a lot when I was young. All the obvious, all the greats, from 'Le Grand Meaulnes,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'Fear and…

— Viv Albertine

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

— Jenny Zhang

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone…

— Rick Yancey

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man,…

— Paul Wesley