Being Quote by Mark Kurlansky

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

— William Steig

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

All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books…

— Don Novello

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you…

— Richard K. Morgan

When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.

— Angie Thomas

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was…

— Adora Svitak

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as…

— Louise Brown

When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels. So one…

— Matt Haig

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that…

— Carol Windley