Age Quote by Angie Thomas

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted…

— Molly Ringwald

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read…

— Lauren DeStefano

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

— Philip Reeve

When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on…

— Mark Kurlansky

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

— Pete Wentz

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

— Alison Bechdel

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked…

— Cynthia Voigt

All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated…

— Lauren Groff

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you…

— Richard K. Morgan

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for…

— Deb Caletti