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I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

— Elizabeth Olsen

I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they…

— Diablo Cody

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

— Judy Blume

I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My…

— Renee Watson

Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not…

— Shannon Hale

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing…

— Robert Cormier

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 wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters…

— Elizabeth George

I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City of Bones…

— Cassandra Clare

“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And…

— Eliot Schrefer