“I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.” YoungNovelAdultsYoung Adult Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.” PeopleThinkingWorldYoungLiteratureStuffBehindsFantasyNovelAdultsYoung AdultConsumersAvidFantasy Worlds Author:Diablo Cody
“In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.” WayShouldChildrenDoeStillsBookSoulFeelingsJobsNightWishFeltNovelTakenStupidNormalAdultsTwentiesSevenKillingHatedUsaUsualRescuePublishersDay And NightManuscriptsDamnationDrudgery Author:Tanith Lee
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.” PeopleIfsGivingNovelDemandAdultsProofTeensJustine Author:Justine Larbalestier
“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.” GivingWritingKindChildrenFeelingsRunningParentChanceRaceSituationNovelSubjectsAdultsMercyResponse Author:Nina Bawden
“In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.” ThinkingYoungChoicesCultureBlackDarkWhiteNovelReaderAdultsAbsolutesYoung AdultDefinedGrayShadeSatisfyingBlack And WhiteShades Of Gray Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.” PeopleKnowsFirstsYoungNovelAdultsYoung AdultDystopianGiver Author:Lois Lowry
“I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindChildrenImportantBookStoriesHappensWould BeYoungNovelSeriousAdultsShould HaveFeaturesTheme Author:John Boyne
“Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.” WritingBookRomanceYoungNovelWonderfulAdultsMy FavoriteYoung AdultGenrePromotingRomance NovelFavorite Book Author:Simone Elkeles
“The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.” FirstsMadeBookMotherNovelReadyAdultsDecidedBlueImpressionLastingCastlesLucyLasting Impressions Author:Hallie Ephron
“What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.” KnowsWantFeelsMayMeanStoriesRealityTruthFictionNovelImpossibleReaderAdultsTestsRingsTalesFantasticFairyFairy TaleRealismTrue Life Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“Novels are make-believe and play for adults.” BelievePlayNovelAdultsMake Believe Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.” WritingMindFirstsChildrenHas BeensBookAgeWantedLastsYoungCertainCoursesNovelWrittenSpecialAdultsSticksSeriesYoung AdultGenreDividedFavouriteSpecial To Me Author:Michael Scott
“I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City of Bones came to me, I knew the main characters were teenagers. In my mind they were just very clearly the ages they were, which turned out to mean it was a YA novel.” ThinkingWritingMindMeanIdeasCharacterAgeYoungCitiesNovelAdultsYoung AdultBonesTeenagerMain Characters Author:Cassandra Clare
“I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.” ThinkingShouldWritingFirstsWellsChildrenSaidIdeasHandsSchoolHouseNovelWrittenTerribleHigh SchoolDevilAdultsEightSellingEditorsPublishingPublishInappropriatePublishing House Author:Daniel Handler
“Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.” FirstsWellsSaidBookEndsReadingTermDealsFictionNovelArmsDevelopmentAdultsScience FictionInsightFarewellFarewell To ArmsFarewell Love Author:Robert Reed
“As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters, and would immerse in playing like that for hours. I suppose it was a natural follow up, wanting to still play in a similar fashion, but as an adult.” StillsBookPlayCharacterKidsHoursNaturalNovelFashionBrotherPagesAdultsMy BrotherFollow Up Author:Irena A. Hoffman
“That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.” WorldHas BeensBookIdeasLostNovelMediaAdultsDuesComicCommerceComic BookAspireRespectableGraphicGhettoGraphic Novels Author:Adrian Tomine
“The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.” ShouldChildrenDoeBookNovelViolenceAdultsHarmAnalysis Author:Martin Gardner
“I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.” HeartFormYoungNovelAdultsIntentionYoung AdultGenrePurityPurity Of Intention Author:Ira Sachs
“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.” BookHardWholeKidsFunVoiceChallengesAttitudeNovelReaderBattleAuthorityAdultsEnvironmentalWhole LifeFoolishNarrativeGreedyArbitraryGrownupsKids LoveIrreverentSmartassNarrative Voice Author:Carl Hiaasen