Books Quote by Matt Haig

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read…

— Lauren DeStefano

When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on…

— Mark Kurlansky

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

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

— Angie Thomas

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for…

— Deb Caletti

I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope.…

— Jenny Han

The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The…

— Russell Smith

I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with…

— Sarah Mlynowski

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

While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.

— Jennifer Armentrout

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists…

— Charles de Lint

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't…

— Robin Wasserman