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To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists…

— Charles de Lint

When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels. So one…

— Matt Haig

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read…

— Lauren DeStefano

While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.

— Jennifer Armentrout

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids…

— Terry Pratchett

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

I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope.…

— Jenny Han

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't…

— Robin Wasserman

When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on…

— Mark Kurlansky

When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.

— Angie Thomas

I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with…

— Sarah Mlynowski

All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson