Young Adult Literature

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

    “The young woman-smell
    Of your poppy body
    Rises to my brain as opium”
    —Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)

    “And I, whose childhood
    Is a forgotten boredom,
    Feel like a child
    Who comes on a scene
    Of adult reconciling,
    And can understand nothing
    But the unusual laughter,
    And starts to be happy.”
    —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)