Amazing Quote by Jeff Giles

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

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

— Hallie Ephron

I still have a YA-genre-series type of a book in me that I really want to tell.

— Janet Mock

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't…

— Robin Wasserman

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

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

— Lauren Conrad

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince…

— Lynn Coady

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to…

— Karin Slaughter

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

— Glen Duncan

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay