Adult Quote by Ned Vizzini

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

— Oliver Markus

Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's interest.

— Jesse Andrews

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people…

— LeVar Burton

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't bookstores with…

— Jay Asher

Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We're all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them…

— Vin Diesel

It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.

— Winona Ryder

Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see…

— Andy Samberg

“It sometimes strikes me that there is only one taboo left in young adult literature. By and large, no one complains any more when…

— M.T. Anderson

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea…

— Soman Chainani

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to…

— Helen Mirren

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

— Philip Pullman

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous