Words matter. These are the best Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I’m reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it’s where I keep a collection of ghost books.
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at ‘The Improper Bostonian.’ It’s just something I’ve always loved very deeply.
I don’t want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they’re peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish’s ‘Monster Blood Tattoo,’ in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There’s no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they’re not always given credit for that.
I feel like it’s hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they’re called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.
I think kids are excited by language, and they’re not always given credit for that.
Older teens tend to write to me and say, ‘Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.’
Older teens tend to write to me and say, ‘Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.’ And then there are the letters from adults who say, ‘This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?’
I feel like it’s important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it’s very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
