Young Adult Literature

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)