Top 1200 Young Adult Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.

Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.

'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'

Richelle Mead's 'Vampire Academy' saga is set to be the next young adult paranormal series to become a household name.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

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.

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

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

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 for me.

I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion as a young adult.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.

I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing a job and people expect something from you. Is that losing my youth? Not at all. I had a fantastic childhood.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the kiss.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

As a young adult, we all go through things now on social media. It's a part of our everyday lives.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing the victim nor creating victims, but just participating in calm, adult behavior. Because an awful lot of churches just aren't there at adult Christianity, this seems to be the norm anymore.

I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.

My favorite movie of all-time is 'Stand By Me,' and I re-read my favorite young adult books often.

I wind up playing these characters a lot: They have self-esteem issues, or they're going through a lot as a young adult.

Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.

I love student life, but I also loved, from a young age, being in a working environment where you are treated as an adult.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

I feel like Vertigo is a place to have an adult discussion for adult readers.

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire, so now that I am a vampire, everyone's like, 'You finally did it!' But it's cool and I loved doing 'Young Dracula.' That show's finished and I don't know why it ended, so it was brilliant to go into 'Being Human,' which is like the adult version of it.

With 'Mismatched,' we hope to bring back the Young Adult drama/ teenage drama genre.

The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

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.

I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.