Age Quote by Julie Kagawa

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

— Sara Zarr

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

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

— Emily Giffin

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had…

— Michelle Gagnon

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they…

— Alexei Sayle

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York!…

— Ernest Gaines

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

— David Sedaris

I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my…

— Jenny Han

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about…

— Ann Brashares

I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of publishing houses…

— Kanika Dhillon