Young Adult Quotes - Page 5

• I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Jobs, Teenager, School

  Interview with Grimes, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.

  Gene Weingarten

  Mistake, Believe, College

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, you know, or whatever else we want to do.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Drinking, Moving, Character

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

  Jeff Myers

  Caring, Adults, Mentoring

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

  R. L. Stine

  Book, Years, Adults

  "R.L. Stine Talks New Book, 'Red Rain'". Interview with Jackie Nash, www.biography.com. October 10, 2012.

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• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Writing, School

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• As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Moving, Years, Historical

  "Ursula K. Le Guin talks about genres, gender, and broadening fiction". Interview with Michael Cunningham, electricliterature.com. April 2, 2016.

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• I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

  Regina Brett

  Book, Giving, Overcoming

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• 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.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Avid, People

  "Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Screenwriter Diablo Cody YOUNG ADULT Interview". collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.

  Maynard Webb

  Running, Jobs, Believe

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.

  Scott O'Dell

  Country, Children, Book

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• I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Jobs, Book

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• I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  Rachael Taylor

  Thinking, Choices, Adults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.

  Anita Silvey

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I read Pushing the Limit and Dare You To by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now Im a believer.

  Lori Foster

  Stuff, Limits, Pushing

  "Interview: Lori Foster, 'Bare It All'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. May 1, 2013.

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• I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They begin forming the Young Adult there going to become, here molding . I can't put a "name" on it but it's something. Your trying to find yourself, were getting ready to go to High School and as this world teaches you, you must "belong" to something. (So we Belong to Something)

  Richard Cabral

  School, Kids, Names

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to audition for it. I didn't get the part. I didn't even go in because I thought that the part was just a repackaged version of the parts I played before in these young adult films - sort of moody, masculine, but sensitive and all this kind of thing. It was just a repackaged, rather dull thing.

  Max Irons

  Auditions, Adults, Roles

  "Max irons assumes his throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

  Ned Vizzini

  Book, Adults, Lessons

  "Geek Becomes Hero In Ya Novel The Other Normals: Q&A With Ned Vizzini". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. October 1, 2012.

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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Adventure, Appreciate

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• Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they chat someone up? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerers biggest challenge.

  Gareth Gates

  Jobs, Hard Work, Phones

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• A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Children, Adults, Definitions

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• 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.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Writing, Adults

  "Younger Audiences". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 24, 1998.

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• Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young" he is; 'adult' he is not.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Taken, Adults, Roles

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