Famous quotes containing the words young, adult and/or literature:
“For ourselves, we are too young for experience. Who is old enough?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)