I love writing about young people.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they…

— Katherine Paterson

Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.

— Lloyd Alexander

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

— Ellie Goulding

I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two…

— Rick Riordan

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they…

— Mike White

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that…

— Laini Taylor

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea…

— Soman Chainani

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth;…

— Jill Paton Walsh

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another…

— Jane Austen

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving,…

— William Sleator

I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to…

— Sebastian Lelio

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was…

— Adrian Tomine