The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
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Related I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when i... RAE CARSON Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to... JOHN LOGAN The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I ... OLIVER GOLDSMITH The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re... OLIVER GOLDSMITH Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read.... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write... ENOCK MAREGESI I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they hav... SARAH REES BRENNAN What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good... MALCOLM BRADBURY To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second t... SELWYN CHAMPION The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re... SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re... OLIVER GOLDSMITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re... GEORGE GISSING I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understan... FRANK OZ Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Wood... BILLY COLLINS We always felt we have male readers who say they don't read our romance novels but they do. MARLEAH STOUT We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagin... ZOLTAN KODALY When a new book is published, read an old one. SAMUEL ROGERS I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies. PAOLO SORRENTINO How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps a... HAROLD BLOOM I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the fil... ALICE ENGLERT I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly writte... STANLEY ELKIN Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to kee... PAUL LYNDE Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. ALBERTO MANGUEL I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a... JULIA SWEENEY Think more than you read and become an author.
Think as much as you read and become a speaker.
Read ... EPHDAN No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, ... D. A. CARSON Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human br... JOHN STEINBECK Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you'... ALENA GRAEDON What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you... DONALD S. WHITNEY If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Re... TERRY PRATCHETT Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read q... JOHN HUME It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have r... ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much... NORMAN COUSINS You don't have to be a music major, we have an open door policy, open to all majors. The only downfa... CHARLIE TOOMER To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually yo... AVI There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than... MORTIMER ADLER There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than... MORTIMER ADLER Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not dimi... EAVAN BOLAND I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn'... EDDIE KAYE THOMAS I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. JOHN ADAMS I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read... JOHN ADAMS If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is t... PAUL COLLINS Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in... PRIYAVRAT THAREJA She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhapp... CORNELIA FUNKE Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like... WILLIAM FAULKNER Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like... WILLIAM FAULKNER Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is ... KATE FORSYTH Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes... MARK LAWRENCE It's no fun to read a book, and have no one to discuss it with. BONNIE THOMPSON All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age... ABBI GLINES I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor... J. B. PRIESTLEY I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor... JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Thank you for the friendship! Yes, GoodReads is fabulous fun, and the best reviews are so illuminati... WILLIAM DONELSON The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, h... LOREN WEISMAN I'd definitely like to do something darker, something... maybe an older character. You know, maybe a... ALEXIS BLEDEL It offers sensible, practical advice, in an easy-to-read format. BILL WARD GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il... WILLIAM DONELSON The kids also develop a bound with the dog and they really look forward to come back on Wednesdays. ... LORI STEPHENSON The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills t... DAN PINK People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets. MAJ SJOWALL GoodReads is fabulous fun, and the best reviews are so illuminating. I love the reviews ... WILLIAM DONELSON It's not until you're an adult you appreciate how awesome a dog is. Your dreams start dying, somebod... BILL BURR I would rather have students read a difficult text that they find challenging than one they dismiss ... PAUL ARMSTRONG Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just lik... WILLIAM FAULKNER One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside th... OTTO PENZLER Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera... ARNOLD BENNETT Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of av... ARNOLD BENNETT It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disa... MARK SHRIVER Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mir... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Smith could 'read' the rocks on the surface. He realized that it was not random, that earth's proces... TRACY GREGG I have never squandered an opportunity to read. JOE QUEENAN Albus: First question. What do you know about the Triwizard tournament? Scorpius(happy): Ooooh,... J.K. ROWLING It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re... C.S. LEWIS I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and ... JAMES IHA I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help read... ANNE STEVENSON I keep expecting the kids to get bored with it. But they never do. Every year they get really excite... JENNY ZETAH I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read ... JOY BEHAR A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living o... HENRY DAVID THOREAU A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved ... WINSTON CHURCHILL I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could ... FRANZ WRIGHT We have a large group of citizens who look for continuing education opportunities and they really en... JENNIFER PRATT All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. WILL ROGERS It's interesting to re-read the book as an adult. Most people read it in high school, but different ... HILERY WALKER And thus do We repeat the communications and that they may say: You have read; and that We may make ... QURAN It's really an engaging read, for one thing. It's looking at food from all kinds of perspectives. KAREN ROTH Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time rea... DAN WILBUR It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. Bu... C.S. LEWIS All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. WILL ROGERS Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power MICHAEL FOOT I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always di... MARILYN HACKER Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have... BILL BUFORD It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not r... DAVID THEWLIS No one wants to read an apologetic book. PATRICK NESS
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BERTRAND RUSSELL For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem... BERTRAND RUSSELL If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun... BERTRAND RUSSELL The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine... BERTRAND RUSSELL What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night an... BERTRAND RUSSELL We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l... DORA RUSSELL Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure... BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev... BERTRAND RUSSELL One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p... BERTRAND RUSSELL When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ROSALIND RUSSELL It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate... BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far , and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi... BERTRAND RUSSELL When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea... BERTRAND RUSSELL What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. BERTRAND RUSSELL What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ... BERTRAND RUSSELL An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc... RUSSELL BAKER A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran... BERTRAND RUSSELL The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i... BERTRAND RUSSELL Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte... BERTRAND RUSSELL Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have... BERTRAND RUSSELL My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. BERTRAND RUSSELL Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur... RUSSELL BRAND Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve... BERTRAND RUSSELL I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou... RUSSELL HOBAN Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ... PETER RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li... BERTRAND RUSSELL