Ahead Quote by Lionel Shriver

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way…

— Paul Westerberg

“Cliff says Sylvia Plath's work is very depressing to read, and that his own daughter had recently suffered through The Bell Jar because she…

— Matthew Quick

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

— David Crabb

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

— S. E. Hinton

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

— Jesse Andrews

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home…

— Tessa Dare

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

— Tomi Adeyemi

“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty child, and…

— Victor Hugo

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

— Libba Bray

“Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again. (From…

— Giddens Ko

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

— Patrick Ness

As a young woman, I was disturbed by the fact that there was no imagery that truly expressed the experience of a young woman…

— Petra Collins