Anything Quote by Noelle Stevenson

I'm not sure I could ever write for adults. That's not to throw shade or anything, but I feel like teenagers are much more…

— Angie Thomas

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

— Cynthia Weil

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.…

— Lloyd Alexander

I think it's a mistake to think, 'Am I going to write a young adult book, or do I desperately want to write a…

— Markus Zusak

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren…

— Margaret Mahy

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is…

— Douglas Coupland

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

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

— Celine Sciamma

I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had…

— Michelle Gagnon

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are…

— Zoe Saldana