And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second an…

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to sa…

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care …

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

- Matthew Tobin Anderson