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I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.
Louis Sachar
Me
Together
Book
Thought
Back
Books
Immediately
About
Seemed
Take
Adult
Almost
Coming
Go
Years
Off
Just
Children
Decided
Holes
Then
Worked
Actually
Started
Two
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.
Louis Sachar
Writing
Too Much
Young
Think
Too
Kids
About
Adult
Read
Audience
Up
Holes
Much
Aware
I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.
Lynne Reid Banks
Work
You
Writing
Demanding
Way
Easier
Out
Find
Guts
Lay
Adult
Talent
Got
Line
Very
Same
Quite
Children
Mean
Them
Much
Your
Hard
Less
Pull
I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
M. J. Rose
Life
My Life
First
Back
Neighborhood
Ten
Ten Years
Adult
New
Years
Metropolitan
Up
York
Moved
New York
Grew
Again
Across
Lived
Museum
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Compromise
Adult
Learn
How
Refuse
Children
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
Maggie Gallagher
Better
Black
Pay
Else
High
Black America
Sexual
High Price
Price
Adult
Knows
Than
America
Children
Anyone
Anyone Else
Agendas
Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
Magnus Scheving
Positive
You
Age
Thought
Positive Role Model
Seven
Would
Would-Be
Superhero
More
Could
Lifestyle
Adult
Like
Look
Balanced
Around
Motivated
Up
Model
Role
Role Model
Move
Children
Moves
Then
Create
If I Could
Who
Copy
In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
Mahershala Ali
Life
Time
Humble
Critical
About
Adult
Adult Life
Most
Opinion
Becoming
Years
Ages
Your
Cocoon
Humble Opinion
I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
Maika Monroe
Learning
Own
Guess
Adult
Exciting
Becoming
How
Survive
To Survive
Your
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
Mal Peet
Teenage
See
Adult
Between
Any
Fiction
Literature
Really
Barrier
I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
Mal Peet
Myself
Happy
Writing
Accident
Young
Find
Adult
Categories
However
Young Adult
Fiction
Dislike
I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.
Malala Yousafzai
Age
Girl
Nice
Meet
Adult
Often
Younger
Company
There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
Malorie Blackman
Saying
Needs
History
You
Important
Become
Whatever
Incredibly
Teenager
Parent
Diverse
Adult
Shaping
Force
Affects
Child
Forged
Children
Fiction
Happens
Which
Means
Your
Why
I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.
Malorie Blackman
Love
You
Challenges
Job
Few
Pay
Enough
Adult
Like
Got
Get
To Love
Bills
Lucky
Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
Mara Wilson
Legal
Stars
Considering
Out
Hassle
Voiced
Adult
Surprised
Child
Children
Actor
Phased
It's troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.
Marcia Fudge
Time
Voting
State
Minorities
Percent
Weekend
Adult
Troubling
Voters
Hours
County
Were
American
Represent
Ohio
African
African Americans
African-American
Banned
Which
While
Choice
Popular
Population
Specifically
America is the light, and her people are the goodness that grows from that. She'll always be worth fighting for - it was my greatest honor to fight for her every day of my adult life.
Marcus Luttrell
Life
Day
Fight
Every Day
People
Worth
Light
Honor
Goodness
Fighting
Every
Adult
Adult Life
She
Greatest
Always
America
Grows
Her
I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.
Marcus du Sautoy
Will
Sense
Think
Some
Adult
Primary
Because
Audience
Effect
Children
Then
I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.
Margaret Mahy
Age
Writing
Young
Group
Think
Pleased
Above
Small
Small Children
Adult
Feel
Well
Another
Am
Very
Just
Young Adults
Children
Story
Which
Age Group
Prefer
Works
Who, adult or child, is Michael Jackson truly close to? What and who is he trying to flee? What's the nature of the psychic damage he has so clearly sustained? I suspect his racial identity is more a byproduct of that damage than the primal cause.
Margo Jefferson
Nature
Cause
Psychic
More
Adult
He
Primal
Clearly
Identity
His
Truly
Michael
Close
Michael Jackson
Than
Child
Trying
Jackson
Suspect
Sustained
Flee
Racial
Who
Damage
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
Maria Montessori
Intelligence
Mind
Will
Every
Type
Our
Possess
Insect
Find
Adult
Unconscious
Unconscious Mind
Call
Does
Inferior
Child
Being
Mean
Full
Now
Conscious
Conscious Mind
I just think that you have to approach anything you do with a huge amount of integrity - I don't really care where it comes from, whether it's a children's piece or an adult piece.
Marianne Elliott
You
Integrity
Care
Think
Approach
Adult
Piece
Huge
Huge Amount
Just
Where
Children
Anything
Whether
Really
Amount
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
Mariel Hemingway
Love
Me
World
Thought
Living
Adult
Taken
New
Fell
Being
Romanticism
Then
Acting
Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact.
Mariella Frostrup
Wish
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Every
Spend
Adult
No-One
Making
Intact
Escapes
Capable
Choose
Who
Lives
Right
Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.
Mark Edwards
Life
Soul
Will
My Soul
Adult
Adult Life
Part
Cleveland
Always
Up
Grew
Place
Much
Lived
I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.
Mark Frost
Me
Subconscious
Young
Think
Write
Adult
Audience
Young Adult
Decided
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