Amazing Quote by Jennifer Donnelly

I've written a lot of novels for teens and tweens ... but I'd never really tackled the North Carolina side of me. And it's…

— Lauren Myracle

It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a…

— Julia Alvarez

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

— Meg Wolitzer

“[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found…

— Linda Sue Park

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

— Peter Davison

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone…

— Rick Yancey

“Find children in your neighborhood, Teach them to read and write Take them out of the darkness, Into the light”

— Charmaine J Forde

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that…

— Kameron Hurley

If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make. It's important…

— Pat Mora

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the…

— Jasper Fforde