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Quotes from interview — Elizabeth Acevedo

United States

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people read like they eat: Sometimes we want comfort, sometimes we want to work to crack something open…Books truly are nourishment for me.

interview (2021)

(How do you distinguish Y.A. books from adult fiction?) Partly voice, but my own personal ethos is that Y.A. requires hope. I’m less stringent on my requirement for hope in books for adults.

interview (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Acevedo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.