Accident Quote by Deb Caletti

I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with…

— Sarah Mlynowski

When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.

— Angie Thomas

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

When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels. So one…

— Matt Haig

I became a children's author by accident.

— Jerry Spinelli

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

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

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which…

— Michael Scott

I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope.…

— Jenny Han

I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious…

— Jeff Giles