Age Quote by Nora Ephron

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing…

— Lillian Hellman

When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger…

— Jesse Sheidlower

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

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to,…

— Fran Lebowitz

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing…

— Robert Cormier

If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

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

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

— John Boyne

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

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems…

— William Styron

I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at…

— Julia Quinn

“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