Young Adult Literature

Famous quotes containing the words young, adult and/or literature:

“There was a young lady of Joppa
Who came a society cropper.
She went to Ostend
With a gentleman friend—
And the rest of the story’s improper.”
—Anonymous.

“[Children] do not yet lie to themselves and therefore have not entered upon that important tacit agreement which marks admission into the adult world, to wit, that I will respect your lies if you will agree to let mine alone. That unwritten contract is one of the clear dividing lines between the world of childhood and the world of adulthood.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)

“[The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)