Awe Quote by Sarah Dessen

It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a…

— Julia Alvarez

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think…

— George Pelecanos

When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book helped me…

— Jay Asher

It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote…

— Frank McCourt

I think back on all the great people in my life, from my parents to my teachers, and the wonderful influence they had on…

— Jimmie Allen

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

— Peter Davison

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

— Alexandra Bracken

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell…

— Sidney Sheldon

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do…

— Shantel VanSanten

When I was in high school, I was writing a lot. I dealt with my high school angst by writing short plays and short…

— Susanna Fogel

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged…

— Sasha Grey