Kathe Koja Quotes

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.

That’s for old people.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

I think 'The Road' is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn't recommend it to young kids.

There are companies around today who will not hire over age 40, will not train after age 50 and who don’t want you around after age 60.

Certain roles for older women are aimed at certain older actresses - I'm not one of those. I've been offered any number of Puerto Rican grandmas that I've turned down.

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

Ageism is something that does exist.

You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

Age is not a problem. It becomes a problem when people try and make us think old.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!