Always Quote by Meg Wolitzer

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 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've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

— Tom Fletcher

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

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 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

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 grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

— Heather Donahue