"When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and the..." — Mark Kurlansky

When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.

Mark Kurlansky Journalist • American