Book Quote by Milton Meltzer

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Books change us. They excite us, they compel us to question, to fight, to believe in the possibility of the improbable; they are the…

— T.S. Tate

“What I worry about most is the loss to young people. If no one speaks out for them, if they don't speak out for…

— Judy Blume

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and children’s fiction…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Anonymous

“... the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the…

— Nick Hornby

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing…

— Jenny Han

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman

“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has…

— C.S. Lewis

“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

— Madeleine L'Engle