Famous quotes containing the words young, adult and/or literature:
“Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority.”
—Edward Young (1683–1765)
“An air lambent with adult enterprise ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)