Books Quote by Jenny Han

Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My…

— Renee Watson

My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile -…

— Jenny Han

I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write a novel…

— Morgan Parker

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 was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

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 wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a…

— Harry Turtledove

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a…

— Julia Glass

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley

Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a…

— Kate DiCamillo