A collection of thoughts and quotes by Robert Cormier on teenage, youth, writing, life, mediocre, words, literary, evil, sin, truth, experiences and love.
The famous American author and journalist Robert Cormier is known for his novels and short-stories showing the negative side of a teenager’s life. He started his career as a scriptwriter for radio commercials. He also worked as a reporter and a columnist for a long time with renowned newspapers like ‘Worcester Telegram’ and won three major awards. His novels were based upon the life of teenagers which made him as a noteworthy writer for young adults. His books were more focused on showing the reality and due to this he was rejected by various schools calling his writing negative. His book ‘The Chocolate War’ was considered to be the best novel for young adults but remained in controversy due to its sexual content and offensive language. His book ‘I Am the Cheese’ went on to the ‘5 Annual Book List’ and made the publication win the ‘Phoenix Award’. He was honored ‘Margaret A. Edwards Award’ for his work. We bring to you a compilation of thoughts and quotations by Robert Cormier which have been extracted from the vast sea of his work. Go through these quotes by Robert Cormier which have ignited the mind of various young adults about teenage.
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?
He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.
A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.
It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.
Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the only word that really seemed beautiful to me was tenderness.
