Young Adult Literature

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

“He was a young lady in so many ways. A Victorian lady. Somewhere inside him, there was an adolescent girl.”
—Leon Edel (b. 1907)

“As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth—whatever the truth may be—that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.”
—June Jordan (b. 1936)

“[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)