Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes & Sayings

“I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.”

“If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.”

“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 write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.”

“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.”

“We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.”

“Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.”

“It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.”

“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.”

“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.”