Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Matthew Tobin Anderson quotes and sayings page 2 (author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 24 we have.
“Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'”
“I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.”
“Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.”
“Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?”
“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.”
“I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.”
“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 don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.”
“I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.”
“I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.”
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