Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

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 looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.

I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

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.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

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.

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 was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

You need the noise of your friends in space.

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.

Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.” Blam.

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

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

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

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.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

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

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

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