Young Adult Literature

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

“It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)