Does Quote by Ol Parker

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

— Julie Kagawa

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they…

— Alexei Sayle

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If…

— Melissa Rosenberg

The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you…

— Cassandra Clare

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

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 write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to…

— Jodi Picoult

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

— Paul Auster

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even…

— Melissa Rosenberg

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 didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

— Sara Zarr

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

— Lillian Hellman