Censorship Quote by Rachel Vail

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I…

— Parminder Nagra

In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults…

— Ellen Hopkins

“I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.”

— Andrea Cremer

“And you didn’t get children to trust you by gutting teenagers right in front of them, not even mean, ugly teenagers. That wasn’t the…

— Brom

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

One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Julie Kagawa

“Teen age is so delicate. It is sensitive. We tend to do something good for other, we fail. We opt to being selfish, we…

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

“teenagers are almost a different species than the rest of us, particularly in social situations.”

— David Sheff

“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a little humiliated,…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

“I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents”

— Terri Anne Browning

“I think it’s pretty common for teenagers to fantasize about dying young. We knew that time would force us into sacrifices—we wanted to flame…

— Julie Buntin