I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart..

I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I….

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?.

No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even tho….

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I h….

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us..

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no r….

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towa….

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works..

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult f….

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?.

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult..

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book..

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult..

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid..

During the entire process of making this film I never thought about whom I was making it for. I always thought that the film was for me, but I didn't….

Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you ….

The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we have large….

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them..

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other.….

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me w….