"To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers."

-- Charles de Lint

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Differences Quotes

“When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.”
“Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.”
“I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.”
“I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.”

Source : Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann
“Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.”
“Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?”
“Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.”
“In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.”

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