Adult Quote by Karen Hesse

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they…

— Katherine Paterson

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

— Iain Lawrence

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and…

— Veronica Roth

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'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what…

— Katherine Paterson

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving,…

— William Sleator

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 have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at…

— Julia Quinn

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to…

— Jodi Picoult

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing…

— Jenny Han

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger…

— William Gibson